The direction of The Sleeping Tiger was credited to Victor Hanbury, but this was actually a pseudonym for the blacklisted Joseph Losey, whose first British film this was. Alexander Knox stars as psych

　　An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister.

　　十三岁的女孩琳（朱迪·福斯特 Jodie Foster 饰）独自寓居在靠海的一座小屋里，她的父亲已逝世，母亲离家出走。心疼他的父亲帮她预付了三年的房租，直到她可以自营生活，她需求做的就是守住父亲已逝的秘密以保住寓居权。但这关于一个小女孩来说一点也不易，为了规避闲人猜疑，她一直独来独往，学着天衣无缝地处置大大事务。与世无争的她还要面对常来找茬的女房东和其儿子的骚扰，偶然警察登门，琳则需求假造一系