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Tiger in the Smoke (Original title)
Date: 24 December 1956 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Roy Baker

Synopsis: A gang of war veterans masquerading as street musicians are searching the London underworld for Jack Havoc, their former sergeant, who, during a wartime commando raid on a French Chateau, deprived them of some hidden loot. After many adventures the gang and Havoc are taken into custody by the police.

Genre:
Action and Adventure
Releases
Date: 1956Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Length: 8457 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (24)
Production Company: Leslie Parkyn Productions, Production Company: Rank Film Productions, Producer: Leslie Parkyn, Production Supervisor: Fred Swann, Production Controller: Arthur Alcott, Assistant Director: Peter Manley, Continuity: Penny Daniels, Script: Anthony Pélissier, Original novel: Margery Allingham, Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth, Camera Operator: Jack Atcheler, [Clapper Loader]: Mike Fox, Editor: John D. Guthridge, Art Director: Jack Maxsted, Dress Designer: John Ellacott, Make-up: Bob Lawrence, Hair: Biddy Chrystal, Music: Malcolm Arnold, Sound Recording: Geoffrey Daniels, Sound Recording: Gordon K. McCallum, [Sound Assistant]: Harry Fairbairn, Sound: Roger Cherrill, Thanks to: City of London Police
Cast (18)
Donald Sinden (Geoffrey Levett), Muriel Pavlow (Meg Elgin), Tony Wright (Jack Havoc), Bernard Miles (Tiddy Doll), Alec Clunes (Asst. Commissioner Oates), Laurence Naismith (Canon Avril), Christopher Rhodes (Chief Inspector Luke), Charles Victor (Will), Thomas Heathcote (Roly), Sam Kydd (Tom), Kenneth Griffith (Crutches), Beatrice Varley (Mrs. Cash), Violet Gould, Stratford Johns ([]), Gerald Harper, Stanley Rose, Brian Wilde, Hilda Barry