**SPOILERS** Bizarre yet interesting psycho analysis movie that's still miles ahead of similar films made around that time, 1945-54, that deals with the complexities of the human mind.
In "The Sleeping Tiger" Dr. Clive Esmond, Alexander Knox, an expert at hand-to-hand combat during his time in the military disarms petty criminal Frank Clemmons, Dirk Bogarde, who attempted to mug him. Instead of having Clemmons arrested and put behind bars Dr,Esmond takes Clemmons home, making him his personal houseboy, to study and at the same time cure him of his criminal tendencies. Arrogant and unrepentant Clemmons never at first appreciates what the good doctor is doing for him. It's when he meets Doc. Esmond's wife Glenda, Alexis Smith, that something clicks in his brain that has him try to make a play for her. What's even more bizarre is that Glenda, who at first couldn't stand the sight of him, starts to slowly gravitate to and fall for the somewhat rude and violent Clemmons!
Making himself at home the first person that Clemmons targets with his wrath is the house maid Sally Foster, Patricia McCarron, who ends up running for her life and away from the Esmond house after he maliciously ruins her clothes by pouring the contents of an ink bottle on them. With an enforced curfew on him by Dr. Esmond Clemmons still sneaks out at night and together with his friend Harry, Harry Towb, breaks into and robs a local jewelry store. Still breaking curfew Clemmons spends most nights, when he's supposed to be at the Esmond residence, at the anything goes Metro Club in the Soho District of London! While all this is happening Glenda starts to go bananas over the free living and fun loving, in doing his "thing" at the expense of everyone else, Clemmons where she plans to leave her husband and take off, into the wild blue yonder, with him!
***SPOILERS*** Even though it didn't seem to at first Dr. Esmond's experiment on Clemmons started to gets results. Not just in Clemmons becoming a normal and productive human being but him suddenly realizing that Glenda is a far bigger fruitcake then he ever was! It's in her putting on an act of how normal and proper she was Glenda was really concealing the fact in what a very disturbed and self-destructive woman she really is.
The final revelation to just how nuts Glenda was is when Clemmons, now trying to get as far away from her as possible, decided to brake up with her. This pushed the panic button in Glenda's paranoid brain who in revenge for what Clemmons did to her, dropping her like a hot potato, makes up a fake and malicious story to her husband, the good doctor, that he both beat and even tried to rape her! What Glenda didn't quite realize his that her husband was on to all all the time and used Clemmons to bring out her paranoid and insane fantasies! Which in the end backfired on him by underestimating just how crazy she really was!
In "The Sleeping Tiger" Dr. Clive Esmond, Alexander Knox, an expert at hand-to-hand combat during his time in the military disarms petty criminal Frank Clemmons, Dirk Bogarde, who attempted to mug him. Instead of having Clemmons arrested and put behind bars Dr,Esmond takes Clemmons home, making him his personal houseboy, to study and at the same time cure him of his criminal tendencies. Arrogant and unrepentant Clemmons never at first appreciates what the good doctor is doing for him. It's when he meets Doc. Esmond's wife Glenda, Alexis Smith, that something clicks in his brain that has him try to make a play for her. What's even more bizarre is that Glenda, who at first couldn't stand the sight of him, starts to slowly gravitate to and fall for the somewhat rude and violent Clemmons!
Making himself at home the first person that Clemmons targets with his wrath is the house maid Sally Foster, Patricia McCarron, who ends up running for her life and away from the Esmond house after he maliciously ruins her clothes by pouring the contents of an ink bottle on them. With an enforced curfew on him by Dr. Esmond Clemmons still sneaks out at night and together with his friend Harry, Harry Towb, breaks into and robs a local jewelry store. Still breaking curfew Clemmons spends most nights, when he's supposed to be at the Esmond residence, at the anything goes Metro Club in the Soho District of London! While all this is happening Glenda starts to go bananas over the free living and fun loving, in doing his "thing" at the expense of everyone else, Clemmons where she plans to leave her husband and take off, into the wild blue yonder, with him!
***SPOILERS*** Even though it didn't seem to at first Dr. Esmond's experiment on Clemmons started to gets results. Not just in Clemmons becoming a normal and productive human being but him suddenly realizing that Glenda is a far bigger fruitcake then he ever was! It's in her putting on an act of how normal and proper she was Glenda was really concealing the fact in what a very disturbed and self-destructive woman she really is.
The final revelation to just how nuts Glenda was is when Clemmons, now trying to get as far away from her as possible, decided to brake up with her. This pushed the panic button in Glenda's paranoid brain who in revenge for what Clemmons did to her, dropping her like a hot potato, makes up a fake and malicious story to her husband, the good doctor, that he both beat and even tried to rape her! What Glenda didn't quite realize his that her husband was on to all all the time and used Clemmons to bring out her paranoid and insane fantasies! Which in the end backfired on him by underestimating just how crazy she really was!