Talk:Tiger Bay (1959 film)
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Removal of "needs-infobox" tag
[edit]This article has had its infobox tag removed by a cleanup using AWB. Any concerns please leave me a message at my talk page. RWardy 19:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
American and British English
[edit]I have changed 'closet' to 'cupboard', 'mail slot' to 'letter box' and some other American English terms. I have also changed 'locking out' to 'departed' and 'anyways' to 'Nevertheless'.
What I forgot to do was change the 'Pinewood' tag to 'Beaconsfield' (the credits say-so at the end of the film). Would somebody like to do the honours? (if there is such a thing - i.e. a 'Beaconsfied tag).
RASAM (talk) 14:15, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Hayley Mills role was originally for that of a boy
[edit]Child star Colin ("Smiley") Petersen, who had starred in a number of films in both Great Britain and his native Australia, was chosen to play the role of the child after completing his role in "A Cry From The Streets" (1958), but just as filming on "Tiger Bay" was about to begin, his mother decided to take him back to Australia to continue his education. Director J. Lee Thompson went to see John Mills at his home to tell him Colin was out of the film and to ask him if he could suggest another boy actor. While they were sat talking in Mills garden, Lee-Thompson noticed Mills 12 years old daughter Hayley as she ran around in the garden and played on a swing. "You know", he said to the actor, "I've been thinking...it doesn't have to be a boy" and Hayley got the role. 50.202.81.2 (talk) 17:07, 18 May 2015 (UTC) and David Rayner, Friday, September 29th, 2017.
Who is the character "Christine"
[edit]In the "plot" section, she appears from nowhere, and in the version I've just watched Broneck gets paid, disembarks past the transporter bridge, then passes through Tiger Bay's multicultural society, stows his bag in a cupboard beside the room that he pays for, and disturbs a part-dressed woman in the room. After that, he doesn't pick up his bag. So ... is the part-dressed woman "Christine"?
She then appears at the police station, handing in the bag (but something is missing - in the conversation with the desk sergeant, it is implied that Christine works as a prostitute) as Barclay arrives to admit to owning the gun.
After hiding out overnight, Bronek returns to Anna's old flat (Christine's working flat) to look for his bag and is sheltered by Christine who had rifled it and taken his papers. She gives him his papers back (the old "tart with a heart" trope), but he leaves her with a cigarette case of some value, then departs to the shipping office.
I'll write this story thread into the article.