Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
Thriller · Crime
Overview
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.
Cast
- Donald Sinden as Geoffrey Leavitt
- Muriel Pavlow as Meg Elgin
- Tony Wright as Jack Havoc (aka Johnny Cash)
- Bernard Miles as Tiddy Doll the Gang Leader
- Beatrice Varley as Lucy Cash
- Alec Clunes as Asst. Commissioner Oates
- Laurence Naismith as Canon Avril
- Christopher Rhodes as Chief Inspector Luke
- Charles Victor as Will
- Thomas Heathcote as Rolly Gripper