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The Sleeping Tiger

Screening on Film
Directed by Joseph Losey.
With Dirk Bogarde, Alexander Knox, Alexis Smith.
UK, 1954, 35mm, black & white, 89 min.

While Elia Kazan pointed fingers and kept working in Hollywood, blacklisted Joseph Losey went into exile in England and made this film under the forced alias of Victor Hanbury. A psychiatrist (Knox) takes a criminal (Bogarde) into his home, much to the consternation of his wife (Smith). The sexual fireworks that follow are an obvious prefigurement of the later Losey/Bogarde classic, The Servant. (The astonishing Dirk Bogarde starred in five Losey films.)

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