Tiger by the Tail

Tiger by the Tail (1955)

The Walls of a Whole City Were Closing In...And Now He Was Running For His Life!

On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when she is shot struggling for a gun she has pulled on him. This is only the start of his troubles, as Anna worked for a criminal organisation who know Desmond has now got her valuable contacts list.

Date of release
1955-09-19
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Crime
Director
John Gilling

Casting

Interesting facts

Tiger by the Tail is a 1955 British second feature ('B') crime thriller film directed by John Gilling and starring Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Lisa Daniely and Donald Stewart. The screenplay was by Gilling and Willis Goldbeck, adapted from the 1942 novel Never Come Back by John Mair.

Production

The film was shot at Walton Studios and on location around London.

Larry Parks had fallen foul of America's House Un-American Activities Committee, and had his first film role for four years starring in this film.

Mair's novel was subsequently adapted under its original name by David Pirie as a three-part TV serial by the BBC in 1990.

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