'The Sleeping Tiger' Director:  Joseph Losey (1954) DVD. Starring Dirk Bogarde, Alexander Knox and Alexis Smith, this British noir is a cat-and-mouse game wherein brash thug Frank  (Bogarde) is sent to live with a psychatrist (Knox) in attempt to reform his criminal ways. When Glenda (Smith), the psychatrist's wife begins to fall in love with Frank, what ensues is a vicious and dangerous love triangle.