---
title: 'The Sleeping Tiger (1954)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Joseph Losey'
released: '1954-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 89
genres:
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-sleeping-tiger-1954'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047505/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

1954 · 89 min · Crime · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

The Sleeping Tiger is a 1954 British film noir directed by Joseph Losey, from a screenplay by Harold Buchman and Carl Foreman, and starring Alexis Smith, Dirk Bogarde and Alexander Knox. It was Losey's first British feature, which he directed under the fronting of producer Victor Hanbury, due to being blacklisted in the McCarthy Era. The film is about a petty thief (Bogarde) who agrees to be the test subject of an affluent psychiatrist (Knox), but the doctor's wife (Smith) becomes infatuated with him.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Joseph Losey](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-losey)
- **Screenplay:** [Carl Foreman](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-foreman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Malcolm Arnold](https://cinepixo.com/people/malcolm-arnold)
- **Director of Photography:** [Harry Waxman](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-waxman)

## Cast

- [Maxine Audley](https://cinepixo.com/people/maxine-audley)
- [Glyn Houston](https://cinepixo.com/people/glyn-houston)
- [Alexander Knox](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-knox)
- [Hugh Griffith](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-griffith)
- [Alexis Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexis-smith)
- [Dirk Bogarde](https://cinepixo.com/people/dirk-bogarde)
- [Billie Whitelaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/billie-whitelaw)

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