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Plot summary
Bronislav 'Bronek' Korchinsky has been sending money from sea to Anya, a Polish exile in Cardiff. Arriving to propose, he finds a harbor hooker living in her old flat; the landlord says Anya left weeks ago and owes rent, and Bronek pays the debt to get her new address. Gillie Evans, an orphaned eleven-year-old playing at the dockside, walks with him when he asks the children for directions. Anya tells him to leave; she has taken up with Barclay, a married sportscaster. Gillie hears shouting from the staircase, where she is playing, and sees the killing through a letter box, then takes the revolver that was hidden. Superintendent Graham investigates the death.
Cast
- George Selwayas Det. Sgt. Harvey
- Sharias Christine
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tiger Bay (1959)
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- J. Lee Thompson rewrote the boy witness as a girl and cast Hayley Mills, though she had "not expressed that much interest in acting". Her parents John Mills and his wife agreed, and Thompson cast her without a test.
- After Tiger Bay, British film producers made Hayley Mills no offers, but Walt Disney cast her as the lead in Pollyanna (1960), which launched her career as a movie star.
- The child witness role was first offered to Colin Petersen, who had been in Smiley; his parents turned it down because they wanted to return to Australia.
