Tiger Bay (1959 film) Tiger Bay (1959 film) Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film based on the short story "Rodolphe et le Revolver" by Noel Calef. 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). 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. The film was shot mostly
Hayley Mills popular success and Mills would be voted the fifth biggest star in the country for the next two years. In 1963 Disney announced plans to film "I Capture the Castle", from the novel by Dodie Smith, with Hayley Mills in the role of Cassandra. However, Disney never produced the film. Her fourth movie for Disney did less well though was still successful, "Summer Magic" (1963), a musical adaptation of the novel "Mother Carey's Chickens". Ross Hunter hired her for a British-American production, "The Chalk Garden" (1964), playing a girl who torments governess Deborah Kerr. Back at Disney she was in