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
Mary Hayley Bell Bell wrote four plays: "Men in Shadow" (1942), "Angel" (1947), "Duet for Two Hands" (1945), and "The Uninvited Guest" (1953). She also wrote the novel "Whistle Down the Wind" (1959), co-wrote the screenplay and story of "Sky West and Crooked" (1966) (released as "Gypsy Girl" in the United States), and wrote additional dialogue for "Scott of the Antarctic" (1948). "Whistle Down the Wind" was made into a film in 1961 (starring daughter Hayley Mills) and an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in 1996. Its title is believed to have been inspired by the sound of the wind around the bow windows