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
John Mills the Streets" (1961) and an Italian-British war film "The Valiant" (1962). Mills did a comedy with James Mason, "Tiara Tahiti" (1962). He had a support role in "The Chalk Garden" (1964) starring Hayley. After a cameo on the war film "Operation Crossbow" (1965), Mills made a third film with his daughter, "The Truth About Spring" (1965). He had a cameo in "King Rat" (1965) for Bryan Forbes, who then directed Mills in "The Wrong Box" (1966). Mills again played Hayley's father on screen in "The Family Way" (1966). He then directed her in "Sky West and Crooked" (1966) from a