Review of The Sleeping Tiger

Before I knew that this was a Joseph Losey film, I did notice a similarity with his film "The Servant ". Dirk Bogarde playing a sinister infiltrator in a private house. American noir set in 1950s England with 2 US actors in starring roles. Psychiatry was a cool profession then and of course Bogarde's character is miraculously cured in the last reel. Strangely the real anachronism (ANC for me the draw of watching a65 year old movie on TV) is the depiction of the low Soho "dive" with an all black bebop jazz combo providing dance music for frantic jiving couples, with blokes sporting Tony Curtis haircuts. Bit too long but very interesting.