Tiger Bay (film)
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Tiger Bay is a 1959 British film, starring John Mills, his daughter Hayley Mills in her first important film role, and Horst Buchholz. Shot on location in the Tiger Bay district of Cardiff, and Newport (specifically Newport Transporter Bridge, some 12 miles from Cardiff) it features many authentic scenes of the children's street culture, and the black street culture, of the time. It also features many dockside shots, scenes in real pubs and in the countryside that surrounds the area. The movie marks a vital transitional moment in the move towards the British New Wave cinema exemplified a few years later by A Taste of Honey (1961).
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- Williams, Melanie (2005). "I'm Not A Lady: Tiger Bay (1959) and transitional girlhood in British cinema on the cusp of the 1960s". Screen: Vol. 46, No. 3, Autumn 2005
