New York Times 13 Dec 1959: X9. Meanwhile Gillie (Hayley Mills), a young girl, is playing with the boys at the dock side. Consequently, the area became the red-light district of Cardiff, and many murders and lesser crimes went unsolved and unpunished, as the perpetrators had sailed away. Claimed by Anthony Allsop to be St Marys Church, Butetown. The coal mining industry helped fund the growth of Cardiff to become the capital city of Wales and contributed towards making the docks owner, The 3rd Marquess of Bute, the richest man in the world at the time. Dissatisfied with waiting while he is at sea, she has been seeing another man, a married sportscaster named Barclay (Anthony Dawson). Tiger Bay (Welsh: Bae Teigr) was the local name for an area of Cardiff which covered Butetown and Cardiff Docks. It stars John Mills as a police superintendent investigating a murder; his real life daughter Hayley Mills, in her first major film role, as a girl who witnesses the murder; and Horst Buchholz as a young sailor who commits the murder in a moment of passion. Date: 1959 (JT), A supposed police station. Thompson decided to cast her even without testing. Bronek admits his guilt after Gillie hugs him, and Graham commends him for his bravery in saving her. Tal-y-bont, Cardigan, Wales, UK (countryside scenes between Gillie and Bronic) 4 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? After stowing his belongings in a hallway cupboard, he finds a new person ("Christine") living in his girlfriend's flat, and does not understand where the money he sent for rent has gone. [7], John Mills said after the film there were no offers for Hayley's services from British film producers, but Walt Disney offered her the lead in Pollyanna. He arrives to a clearly multicultural new Britain, with both black and white children playing on the streets. Bronek finds Anya in her new flat, but she wants nothing to do with him. If you have any information regarding this film, any of the stills, or even better, some NOW shots please contact us. The transporter bridge in Newport, Monmouthshire, now Gwent. Danny done it. In 1999, the area was redeveloped by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation. Both the police and Bronek are aware of the three mile limit for British legal jurisdiction. Coal exports from the South Wales Coalfield via Cardiff totalled nearly 9 million tons per annum, much of it exported in the holds of locally owned tramp steamers. The wealthier residents were able to move away to the new Cardiff suburbs. When the inspector confronts Gillie and Bronek now together aboard the Poloma, they deny knowing each other. Several movies financed by Rank had German stars around this time in an attempt to appeal to the German market. Exports reached 2 million tons as early as 1862, with the East Bute dock opening in 1859. John Mills said when they started filming "I simply couldn't believe what was happening. Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film based on the short story "Rodolphe et le Revolver" by Noel Calef. Director: J. Lee Thompson From the 1850s coal supplanted iron as the industrial foundation of South Wales, as the Cynon Valley and Rhondda Valley were mined. The film was shot on location in Cardiff, Wales and in Beaconsfield Studios. Bronek learns that a Venezuelan merchant ship, the Poloma, will leave port the next day, so Gillie leads him to a hiding place in the countryside, where he entertains her by re-enacting his overseas adventures. In the story the witness to the murder was a young boy. Being the only person to see her fall, Bronek dives into the water to save her and loses his ship. Tiger Bay (1959) Filming & Production. Film titles: T Titles with links have full entries on the site – other unlinked titles listed can be found in the books ( The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations or Movie London ). [4], Filming started 15 September 1958. Frustration at the lack of development at Cardiff led to rival docks' being opened at Penarth in 1865 and Barry in 1889. Thanks to Danny Rees for the pics. [8] Bucholz and Thompson were to reunite in a film called The Rebel but it appears to have not been made.[9]. Increasing agitation for proper dock facilities led Cardiff's foremost landowner, The 2nd Marquess of Bute, to promote the construction of the West Bute Dock, opened in October 1839. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson, produced by John Hawkesworth, and co-written by John Hawkesworth and Shelley Smith (pseudonym of Nancy Hermione Bodington). Sparks in the Park (Round Table Fireworks), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiger_Bay&oldid=965340554, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Tiger Bay is mentioned as one of the locations in, A musical about the history of Tiger Bay named. The film has repeated sections showing the Newport Transporter Bridge in action, one of the few travelling bridges in the world. The film does not consider his punishment. A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation. At the police station, Barclay arrives to admit to having given his gun to Anna simultaneously with Christine handing in the bag of Bronek's belongings to the police. However, locals who lived and stayed in the area describe a far friendlier place. Some picnickers find Gillie at the country hideout and take her to the police, where she continues to lie, identifying Barclay as the murderer. In Cardiff, a young Polish sailor named Bronislav ("Bronek") Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) returns from his latest voyage to visit his girlfriend Anya (Yvonne Mitchell). Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Migrant communities from up to 45 nationalities, including Norwegian, Somali, Yemeni, Spanish, Italian, Caribbean, and Irish, helped to create the unique multicultural character of the area. A naïve young working class child is caught up, in all innocence, in a murder investigation. Bronek leaves her with a metal cigarette case which she had already taken from the bag, travels to the docks and signs on with the ship. Gillie witnesses the incident through the letter box in the apartment door. Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Cardigan, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire (Wales). Gordon Thomson reveals the secret, the exterior of the Sound Department of Beaconsfield Studios. If you have any information regarding this film, any of the stills, or even better, some NOW shots please contact us. Tiger Bay marked the acting debut of a young Hayley Mills, who has returned to the locations where she filmed 60 years ago for a special programme on ITV Cymru Wales. The film was shot mostly on location in the Tiger Bay district of Cardiff, at Newport Transporter Bridge in Newport (12 miles from Cardiff) and at Avonmouth Docks in Bristol. It marks a vital transitional moment in the move towards the British New Wave cinema exemplified a few years later by A Taste of Honey. Edit. Gillie Evans is an orphaned tomboy who lives with her Aunt. "The Tiger Bay Story" by Neil M.C.Sinclair, published by Dragon & Tiger Enterprises, This page was last edited on 30 June 2020, at 19:20. After some rough-housing she drops the sausages she is carrying home to her aunt. This redevelopment focused around the building of the Cardiff Bay Barrage, one of the most controversial building projects of the day but also one of the most successful,[7] that impounds the Rivers Taff and the Ely to create a massive freshwater lake.