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...well until the easygoing Italian commandant (Ronald Lewis) is replaced by a Wehrmacht colonel (Albert Lieven) who soon begins to suspect that the convent's Christian charity is not necessarily limited to Christians. At the last, the suspense is enough, as the Italians say, to make the Devil sweat holy water...
Tiger Bay. A fast-moving British film-that follows a killer and a little girl around Cardiff, produces enough suspense to bring sweat to stone foreheads. With Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills...
Tiger Bay. A fast-moving British film that follows a killer and a little girl around Cardiff, produces enough suspense to bring sweat to stoniest foreheads...
...dragon-a monster!" says one lifelong Bavarian pursuer of the huchen. The fish is a bit of both: triangular head with gaping mouth and reddish eyes, a silver-bellied, copper-backed body that can grow as big as 6 ft. and 110 lbs. With snow on their foreheads and sweat on their cheeks, fishermen have struggled for more than an hour to land even 40-lb. catches, then continued the fight on shore with club and stone. One last-resort tactic: falling full-length on the huchen and smothering it in a snowbank...
Movingly acted by Horst Buchholz and twelve-year-old Hayley Mills, daughter of British Cinemactor John Mills (who plays a police inspector), and masterfully directed by J. Lee Thompson, the story that follows makes enough suspense to bring sweat to stone foreheads. Oblique, shadowy photography gives Cardiff the musical unease of The Third Man's Vienna, and from the exhausting tension there is seldom any relief. The picture cuts abruptly back and forth, now watching the methodical police picking up clues with a sort of slue-footed genius, now following the killer and the little girl...