Tiger in the Smoke (1956)

6.7/10 94 min Thriller Crime

Overview

In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.

Cast

Donald Sinden

Geoffrey Leavitt

Muriel Pavlow

Meg Elgin

Tony Wright

Jack Havoc (aka Johnny Cash)

Bernard Miles

Tiddy Doll the Gang Leader

Beatrice Varley

Lucy Cash

Alec Clunes

Asst. Commissioner Oates

Laurence Naismith

Canon Avril

Christopher Rhodes

Chief Inspector Luke

Charles Victor

Will

Thomas Heathcote

Rolly Gripper

Sam Kydd

Tom Gripper

Kenneth Griffith

Crutches

Gerald Harper

Walter "Duds" Morrison

Wensley Pithey

Detective Sergeant Pickett

Stratford Johns

Police Constable

Percy Herbert

Copper

Brian Wilde

Trumps

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