Sleeping Tiger, The

Date: 1954
Director: Victor Hanbury (Joseph Losey)
Production Company: Victor Hanbury Productions

Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Hugh Griffiths
Location(s): Walton-on-Thames, London, Weymouth, Dorset

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

Psychologist invites ruffian into home and tries to discover what makes him tick but did not reckon on his wife falling in love with him. SJ

Additional Information:

Losey’s first British film after being blacklisted in the States beginning a long association with Dirk Bogarde.

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Knox is followed by a scoundrel.

Approaching Smith and Knox's house. An almost identical shot was seen in 'The Naked Truth'. Location identified by Richard Lovejoy.

The old offices of J E Purdie & Son, 34 Bridge Street, Walton-on-Thames. Location photo (including gas main works) replaces Streetview image. SD

And this is their house. The Croft on Bridge Street near Nettlefold studios in Walton-on-Thames identified by Richard Lovejoy. The building also appears in 'Glad Tidings', 'Madame Louise', 'Morning Call', 'The Naked Truth', 'Old Mother Riley Headmistress', 'Operation Diplomat' and 'Trouble with Eve'.

The house was called The Croft and was owned by Nettlefold Studios. It stood to the right of Dr Harz's house in 'The Naked Truth'. SD

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Bogarde approaches the Metro nightclub.

Bogarde waits for his accomplice. Paulette Bure?

22 Connaught Street, London W2. (RL)

A better shot down the street as the accomplice approaches.

Connaught Street, London W2

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The ensuing jewelry smash'n'grab is witnessed but this is a cut so he may not really be looking down the above street.

Bogarde and Knox at a pub after some fishing. Jan Levy identifies this as the Kings Head, Church Square, Shepperton. (RL)

And Steve Platt provides a well-framed and matching comparison. (SJ)

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Smith runs out of the Metro, seen above.

She turns a corner, pursued by Bogarde, to her car parked in front of St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road, SW11. 'Alfie' also used the area as a location and the church can be seen in 'For Them That Trespass', 'Melody', 'Food for a Blush' and 'The Sleeping Tiger'.

From the same angle now. (PW)

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Leaving Woolworth's, Bogarde emerges with some spectacles as a cunning disguise: well that narrows it down. Peter adds "This may be Woolworths at 105-109 Strand in WC2 if my memory serves me right" while Mary French suggests that it could be the Walton-on-Thames branch as it would have been close to capture 2. And now, Anthony Spencer proposes 311 Oxford Street W1, a larger branch and likely due to the location of the following capture.

Bogarde about to steal a tool bag. I can't quite make out the street sign but it's of the sort in the Bond/Oxford Street W1 area.

Indeed it is, Wells Street and Eastcastle Street junction.(RL)

Approaching the office he's planning to rob. Berners Street, London W1 identified by Peter. The building past the open space still stands.

And Peter also took this comparison of The Sanderson Hotel that has replaced the wallpaper company's offices.

And Bogarde enters on his jaunt just a little further down from above. The Sanderson Hotel has stood at this point on Berners Street since 1958. Location found by Peter . . .

. . . . who also provided this shot of the same place now.

Bogarde and Smith outside her house.

Bridge Street in Walton on Thames, Surrey. Location photo replaces Streetview image. SD

The reverse pov showing the houses opposite. Bogarde and Smith at the gates.

Bridge Street, Walton on Thames. Location photo replaces Streetview image. SD

Bogarde and Smith turn off Fulham Road into Wandon Road, SW6. The Walsingham Mansions were identified by Tavistock on the Britmovies forum.

Peter found the flats demolished and replaced by Chelsea apartments next to Walsingham Mansions.

Down Wandon Street looking south now to King's Road. The Jam Tree, then the Nell Gwynne, still stands on King's Road. To the left where there is a crash has now been redeveloped.

A new development on the left but the pub in the King's Road is still the same except for the name change. "I have been traversing Wandon Street on the way to Chelsea Football Club for sixty years and only knew it as 'The Short Cut'". Picture and information from Peter.