It has been said that young Hayley Mills takes command of TIGER BAY with her natural acting talents, and this may be true, but it is unfair to all of the actors in this movie. All of them do very well and are fun to watch. If by acting talent alone, TIGER BAY rates a great 9 or perfect 10 star ranking. However, there is more to this movie than acting alone.
The first half seems directed with flawless flare. TIGER BAY is visually fun to watch all through the first half. But in the second half there is a ship chase that is visually all wrong. Ships going out to sea do not go perfectly parallel to the land. They go out to sea. From land you see the stern, not the broadside. Second, a giant moving ship cannot be at speed making way to deep sea in one shot, then be dead still in the water in the next shot. It would take ample time and distance to stop such a heavy ship. Anyway, in general the directing is much more sloppy and less fun in the second half.
The other flaw in TIGER BAY which is difficult to ignore is the human motivation in the story. A young healthy guy very alone and out to sea for a year comes to his old apartment and finds curvy womanly perfection young Christine portrayed by the single-name actress Shari, well... HIS ANTENNA SHOULD HAVE BEEN UP! But in the movie he does not notice her perfect point 7 ratios and eye arresting beauty.
Just like in the Guy Madison movie TILL THE END OF TIME, the very hansom leading man of TIGER BAY, Horst Buchholz, is locked to a somewhat revolting lady that ends up weakening the movie. In TILL THE END OF TIME, the relationship with the older dragon lady goes on and on and makes the who movie flat. In TIGER BAY, the relationship is short but it is key to the plot. It needs to be all about intense uncontrolled passion, but as explained above, any normal lonely guy would be making a polite excuse to leave the revolting girlfriend so he could return to the apartment of stunning curvy amazing Christine.
TIGER BAY is a mixed bag. The first half is very much worth watching.
The first half seems directed with flawless flare. TIGER BAY is visually fun to watch all through the first half. But in the second half there is a ship chase that is visually all wrong. Ships going out to sea do not go perfectly parallel to the land. They go out to sea. From land you see the stern, not the broadside. Second, a giant moving ship cannot be at speed making way to deep sea in one shot, then be dead still in the water in the next shot. It would take ample time and distance to stop such a heavy ship. Anyway, in general the directing is much more sloppy and less fun in the second half.
The other flaw in TIGER BAY which is difficult to ignore is the human motivation in the story. A young healthy guy very alone and out to sea for a year comes to his old apartment and finds curvy womanly perfection young Christine portrayed by the single-name actress Shari, well... HIS ANTENNA SHOULD HAVE BEEN UP! But in the movie he does not notice her perfect point 7 ratios and eye arresting beauty.
Just like in the Guy Madison movie TILL THE END OF TIME, the very hansom leading man of TIGER BAY, Horst Buchholz, is locked to a somewhat revolting lady that ends up weakening the movie. In TILL THE END OF TIME, the relationship with the older dragon lady goes on and on and makes the who movie flat. In TIGER BAY, the relationship is short but it is key to the plot. It needs to be all about intense uncontrolled passion, but as explained above, any normal lonely guy would be making a polite excuse to leave the revolting girlfriend so he could return to the apartment of stunning curvy amazing Christine.
TIGER BAY is a mixed bag. The first half is very much worth watching.