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In her first major acting role, Hayley Mills plays a lonely 10-year-old who witnesses a murder and is abducted by the sailor-killer. In a dramatic and deeply moving climax, the young, tortured seaman must make the most important decision of his life.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 4 Ounces
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Black & White
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 42 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ January 12, 1999
Actors ‏ : ‎ Mills, Buchholz
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
ASIN ‏ : ‎ 6305186731
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Landa J. Malmberg

Hayley Mills

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2022

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I'm reading Hayley Mills autobiography, Forever Young, and she mentions this movie she starred in several times; since I have never seen it, I watched it here on amazon. This was her first film and she was so good in it. The film is worth watching in its own right - really very well done.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2022

Outstanding

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2021

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So glad to find this old film. Has been hard to find available on DVD for USA players. First saw it when it first came out and it has aged much better than I. Haley Mills is luminescent and her father John Mills
his usual brilliant self. Horst Buchholz was also very good - and loved seeing the old British character actors.
Seems to me this should qualify for Criterion collection release - to make it widely available and more informative. I have seen a number of lesser films that Criterion has brought back - Tiger Bay is far superior
to many of them.
Subtitles for hearing impaired a problem. The edition I got made in Korea had English subtitles for hearing impaired but it was defective - did not catch much of what was being said.

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Film storyline holds up even if it is over 50 years since filmed.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 10, 2021

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I viewed Tiger Bay when I was 14 on TV. A local California channel would show English and other foreign films on weekend nights. I think that the story still plays out for today. Children, guns, mixed race neighborhoods, murder and bonding through emotional need. Hayley Mills ,in her 1st film carries the picture. I was a fan of hers as a young teen and of course saw all her Disney films. On viewing this film again as an old adult, I feel that it is too bad that she basically got stuck with Disney. She is so good in Tiger Bay and so adult in her performance- - she ,I feel did not get the chance to act in roles that would have shown her real talents as an actress.
The print of the this film on the DVD is excellent crisp black and white ,but you need an all region DVD player to view it. (If you just have a standard US dvd player it will not play.)

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Tiffany L Jenks

Entertaining

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 9, 2021

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This is Hayley Mills debut movie alongside her father John Mills. It was entertaining, had my attention and overall enjoyed the film. One swear word for those wondering if it’s good for children but otherwise clean.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 21, 2020

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This is a good print of a very good movie but it is not in its proper ratio. The result is a lot of heads and chins are lopped off and the image at times seems awfully cramped. But right now, it's the only game in town. Looking over what's available on Hayley Mills suggests she is not all that popular. Too bad. She made some good pictures. As for the delivery, it arrived much faster than I had expected, the packing strong enough to arrive unharmed, which is rare these days. Don't hesitate to buy from this seller.

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Kristine S. Woeckener

Wow!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 19, 2021

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Haley Mills debuts in this film and shows that she was a natural talent from the start. Everyone is superb in this well written film. Beyond excellent!

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Mary

Great film.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2022

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VHS tape ran perfectly. Thanks

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Phil M

Young Hayley stars at Tiger Bay

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 11, 2019

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Tiger Bay was a classic gritty thriller set in the cosmopolitan South Wales city of Cardiff.
Finely-honed characters with top actors made this a major box-office film in 1959 when the cinema was still thriving.
The star was young Hayley Mills who captured the hearts of cinema-goers with parts in several popular films which followed.
Not having seen Tiger Bay for years. I was glad to revisit it on dvd (doesn't seem to be on TV often) and at a good price, I was pleased.
It was Hayley's first big role. Father John also appears in this gripping murder tale which also stars Horst Buccholz.

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Seatinthestalls

Spellbinding Cinema

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 25, 2011

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Youthful German actor Horst Buchholz is a sailor home from the sea and blissfully navigating for disaster. John Mills' daughter, Hayley, plays tomboy `Gillie' in her debut acting role.

The young sailor's girlfriend has been stringing him along and at the crux of a furious row he shoots her to death. Snooping Gillie sees it all. As events play out, a relationship develops between they two. He's her first infatuation. She's the only witness to a crime that could send him to the gallows. She takes his side. The detective on the case is played by dad, John. The sailor's ship will sail soon. The cops have nothing upon which to detain him except Gillie's unspoken testimony. Sounds simple enough.

I had forgotten just how good this movie was until I got the DVD from Amazon a few months back. Hayley's portrayal of a kid with attitude is an absolute tour-de-force. Vocal intonation and facial expression are right on the money. She is the best of the cast. But handsome Buchholz is also thoroughly convincing as a very young man way out of his depth. He is stricken with shame and misery at what he has done whilst in terror of the consequences.

This tensely developing crime drama and complex of motives that underlie the relationship between sailor and child are set against a truly authentic backdrop of working-class life on the cusp of the 1960's. It's well worth watching for that reason alone. But I also love the way childhood is presented with a candour and frankness that's sensitive without being sentimental. Spielberg should make a study of it. Although story centres upon a minor, it's still an adult movie. It hasn't been dumbed-down for kids. And they will love it all the more for such integrity. Just look at the way John knocks his daughter around!

Characters, relationships and plot development are perfectly paced. Photography and lighting is imaginative, with even a few noirish moments. Editing is all you could wish. It's a 1950's movie so criminals must get caught. But it'll keep you guessing right up to the bittersweet conclusion.

I love this work. It's like an amalgam of all the best elements from `Pool of London' and `Leon'. Honest-to-goodness story-telling.

Amazon's supplied DVD was tiptop. Very highly recommended movie for all ages. Oh - don't be fooled by the artwork; this is filmed in black & white. There's several interesting extras too.

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gilbert

Great acting in authentic period piece.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 24, 2012

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Tiger Bay [DVD] [1959 ]Although I'm the same age as Hayley Mills, I never saw this movie until I was middle aged and it was a revelation. Forget the cutie-pie roles like Pollyanna which she played as a teenager; here she's a troubled, restless child with no real friends and little by the way of constructive adult guidance, living in a run-down, multi-racial, inner-city area. The local kids won't let her play cowboys and Indians with them because she hasn't got a toy gun, so when she witnesses a Polish sailor shooting his girlfriend dead and hiding the weapon, she steals it to increase her street cred. The sailor corners her and although she's scared, she soon realises that so is he. A touching friendship between two outcast, lonely souls develops, with her lying to the police to help him escape. Horst Buchholz is good in his first English-speaking part, just a couple of years before his role in The Magnificent Seven, but the real treat is the cat-and-mouse game between the child and the detective investigating the case, played by Hayley Mills' father John. Hayley was an actress who could speak volumes with her eyes, so we can see all the calculations the child is making as she mixes fact and fiction to spin a convincing yarn to the police officer and pin the murder on the victim's other boyfriend.
Also a little gem is the scene where we see her in church, an angelic-looking choirgirl singing sacred music beautifully, whilst showing her gun off to a boy and doing a trade with him for one of the bullets. I think it was a stroke of good luck that she got a part originally written for a boy; perhaps this allowed a certain amount of outside-the-box thinking about the character and the temptation to make her just a lovable tomboy was avoided.
The film left me wondering why, given her obvious talent, she wasn't given more challenging stuff to do later. Whistle Down the Wind was an excellent film but once she got to Hollywood and achieved stardom, she acquired an image which had to be protected and it seemed that so far as the moguls at Disney were concerned, box-office receipts were more important than her development as an actress. Her Pollyanna image may have been a gold mine in the short term, but as she grew into a woman it was difficult to escape from, despite her best efforts. When I think of Saoirse Ronan, who sprang to fame at a similar age in Atonement, I wonder how Hayley Mills would have turned out if she had been given the opportunity to play the range of roles which Ms Ronan has.
The dvd extras include an interesting, present-day commentary by Hayley Mills. The Cardiff docklands community featured in the film has all but been destroyed by redevelopment but she mentions Neil Sinclair, one of the local kids with a small part in the film, who has written a couple of books on the history of the area. It's worth looking up his guided tours on YouTube.

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DENNIS F.

Great film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 27, 2022

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Haley mills, I fell in love with haley, even named my daughter after haley. Great actress , great family of actors. Brilliant film.

William Squire

Classic film with great stars in it.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 15, 2021

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Bought the dvd for friend as he loves the film and he's been after it on dvd since he saw the film on freeview a few weeks ago.He said i could watch the dvd before i gave it to him and i thought it was a good film with great stars in it too.The dvd was well worth the money my friend payed for it.

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Format	NTSC, Black & White
Contributor	Mills, Buchholz
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 42 minutes