The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
Directed by Joseph Losey · Cinematography by Harry Waxman
Approved89 min61 frames
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What is The Sleeping Tiger about?
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Where can you watch The Sleeping Tiger?
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What does the cinematography of The Sleeping Tiger look like?
Sampled across 61 frames, the coverage of The Sleeping Tiger leans heavily on medium shots (69% of the sample). Cinematographer Harry Waxman keeps 54% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 62% of the frames. Focus stays shallow in 69% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of The Sleeping Tiger?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Sleeping Tiger (1954) are #030303, #313131, #8c8c8c, #6f6f6f, #fafafa, #c9c9c9 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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