Paper Tiger (film)

Paper Tiger

Directed by	Ken Annakin
Produced by	Euan Lloyd
Written by	Jack Davies
Starring	David Niven Toshirō Mifune Kazuhito Ando
Music by	Roy Budd
Cinematography	John Cabrera
Edited by	Alan Pattillo
Distributed by	AVCO Embassy Pictures
Release dates	1975
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Paper Tiger is a 1975 British film starring David Niven and child actor Kazuhito Ando.

Plot summary

Mr Bradbury (David Niven), an apparently well-educated, ex-military Englishman is hired as tutor to Koichi Kagoyama (played by Kazuhito Ando), the son of a Japanese ambassador. Bradbury becomes a trusted friend, who boasts about himself during his British Army service being a hero telling him "war stories", but some painful truths are revealed after he and the boy are kidnapped by political terrorists. It comes to the point when Mr Bradbury has to live up to the "action man" he makes himself out to be.

Cast

David Niven as 'Major' Walter Bradbury
Toshirō Mifune as Ambassador Kagoyama
Hardy Krüger as Günther Müller
Kazuhito Ando as Koichi Kagoyama
Irene Tsu as Talah
Ivan Desny as Foreign Minister
Miiko Taka as Mme. Kagoyama
Jeff Corey as Mr. King
Patricia Donahue as Mrs. King
Ronald Fraser as Sergeant Forster

Production notes

The movie claimed to have been based in the fictional city of Kulagong but in reality it was shot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

External links

Paper Tiger at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ken Annakin

It Began on the Clyde (1946)
Fenlands (1946)
Holiday Camp (1947)
Miranda (1948)
Broken Journey (1948)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Landfall (1949)
Double Confession (1950)
Trio (1950)
Hotel Sahara (1951)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
The Planter's Wife (1952)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
The Seekers (1954)
Value for Money (1955)
Loser Takes All (1956)
Three Men in a Boat (1956)
Across the Bridge (1957)
Nor the Moon by Night (1958)
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Very Important Person (1961)
The Hellions (1961)
The Fast Lady (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
The Informers (1963)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Long Duel (1967)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Paper Tiger (1975)
The Pirate (1978)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)
The Pirate Movie (1982)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)

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