本片描述一名联邦调查局的调查员，本应在瑞士将美国黑社会头子的二奶逮捕归案，不料在和她一番短暂接触后竟然对她萌生爱意。导演斯图尔特．卢森堡有点故作深沉，使得本片沦为一部不伦不类的不象动作片的动作片。全片节奏缓慢，缺乏紧迫,焦虑,急迫,忧虑刺激性氛围，查尔斯．布朗森在片中的表演也让人大跌眼镜，丝毫不象在中译片中那么威猛，吉尔．艾尔兰、罗德．施泰格尔等人的表演也显得平淡无奇。

　　Londoner Ronnie embarks on a journey to India when his mother, Suleka, goes missing and mysteriously ends up in a Kolkata hospital. Before Ronnie can unravel the mystery of what brought his mother back to her homeland, Suleka dies in an apparent cult killing. Further deaths point to a series of past murders that stopped 28 years ago when Suleka left India with her infant son. Until now.
　　As the darkness within Ronnie grows and the murders reach their peak, all roads lead to the feared witch of Kolkata's insane asylum.

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 psychiatrist Clive Esmond, who believes that he can stem the criminal tendencies of young fugitive from justice Frank Clements (Dirk Bogarde). To this end, Esmond hides Clements in his own home. At first hostile towards the handsome crook, Esmond's wife Glenda (Alexis Smith) gradually warms up to her house guest, and before long she and Clements are casting lustful glances at one another. She intends to run off with Clements and make a new life for herself, when suddenly he decides that he actually wants to reform. If nothing else, The Sleeping Tiger is a fascinating precursor to the sexual tensions prevalent in Losey's later Harold Pinter adaptations. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

　　玛格丽特（奥利维娅·科尔曼 Olivia Colman 饰）从小在爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲经营的书店里玩耍长大，博览群书的她对人物传记情有独钟，成年后，她甚至起始,开端,肇始,启始尝试着自己撰写古人传记。某日，玛格丽特收到了作家温特（瓦妮莎·雷德格瑞夫 Vanessa Redgrave 饰）的来信，信中，温特表示渴望,期望,盼望,企望玛格丽特能够替她立书作传。
　　玛格丽特的身世和她本人一样充满了谜团，坊间流传的有关她的传闻几乎都不属实。好奇心的驱使之下，玛格丽特来到了温特的住处，在那里，女作家亲口向她诉说了关于自己家族的历史。然而，这段故事是如此的诡异离奇，令玛格丽特几乎不敢相信,坚信,深信,笃信，为了验证温特所言，玛格丽特决心通过自己的力量进行调查，由此揭开了一个埋藏多年的秘密。

　　特伦斯·戴维斯典雅的艺术杰作，一部能体现出鲜明的英国风格的影片。剧情围绕在二战终结,告终,完结,终止后不久，一个利物浦的工人阶级家庭的一桩婚事展开，并由一位有时而显得残酷的爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲穿插于各种情节中。这部电影的魅力由那些具有深刻艺术性的镜头构成，并结合了导演本身和演员对角色的把握，特别是精彩地诠释,演译,阐释,解释了爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲这一角色的皮特·波斯尔思韦特。

　　剧情介绍一名小孩在无意中见到了刺杀政客的杀手面孔，虽然除了杀手外没有人相信,坚信,深信,笃信他的故事，但杀手还是对他展开了疯狂追杀。苏珊．乔治、莱昂内尔．杰弗里斯等的演出营造了相当紧凑逼人的气氛。但导演的手法太过于流畅，近乎卖弄。片中几段追杀的场面十分紧迫,焦虑,急迫,忧虑刺激，很能掌握住观众的情绪。

　　Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies (Donald Pleasence), an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick (Alan Bates) - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders. Eventually Aston, himself irritated by the cantankerous old man, puts him out.