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- Title
'I'm not a lady!': Tiger Bay (1959) and transitional girlhood in British cinema on the cusp of the 1960s.
- Authors
Williams, Melanie
- Abstract
This article explores the transitional girlhood in British cinema on the cusp of the 1960s. To this end, the author cites director J. Lee Thompson's film "Tiger Bay." "Tiger Bay" may be best remembered as the debut film of Hayley Mills, who went on to become the most successful juvenile star of the 1960s. In "Tiger Bay," Hayley Mills plays Gillie Evans, an eleven-year-old Londoner living in Cardiff, England, with her aunty and whose ultimate ambition is to get herself a cap-pistol so she can join in the neighbourhood games of Cowboys and Indians from which she is currently excluded. When she inadvertently witnesses a murder in her tenement block, she seems not so much shocked by the act as excited that she has seen where the murderer hides his weapon afterwards: at last, she will be able to get her gun, and a real one as well. As the narrative develops, it explores the burgeoning relationship between the murderer and the girl, who end up on the run together, as they move from mutual suspicion to a strong and affectionate bond.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; MOTION pictures; MOTION pictures &; children; GIRLS; MILLS, Hayley; TIGER Bay (Film)
- Publication
Screen, 2005, Vol 46, Issue 3, p361
- ISSN
0036-9543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/screen/46.3.361