Tiger in the Smoke
Tiger in the Smoke
Release: 1956-11-27
·Runtime: 94m
·★ 6.5
Thriller
Crime
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
The Rank Organisation
Cast
Stratford Johns
as Police Constable
Percy Herbert
as Copper
Laurence Naismith
as Canon Avril
Sam Kydd
as Tom Gripper
Wensley Pithey
as Detective Sergeant Pickett
Brian Wilde
as Trumps
Victor Brooks
as Detective (uncredited)
Muriel Pavlow
as Meg Elgin
Tony Wright
as Jack Havoc (aka Johnny Cash)
Christopher Rhodes
as Chief Inspector Luke
Charles Victor
as Will
Gerald Harper
as Walter "Duds" Morrison
Marianne Stone
as (uncredited)
Howard Lang
as Detective (uncredited)
Dandy Nichols
as Stall Attendant (uncredited)
Donald Sinden
as Geoffrey Leavitt
Bernard Miles
as Tiddy Doll the Gang Leader
Beatrice Varley
as Lucy Cash
Philip Ray
as Police Doctor (uncredited)
Alec Clunes
as Asst. Commissioner Oates
Thomas Heathcote
as Rolly Gripper
Kenneth Griffith
as Crutches
