Save the Tiger is a 1973 film about moral conflict in contemporary America. It stars Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Thayer David, Lara Parker and Liv Lindeland. The film is directed by John G. Avildsen and adapted from the novel of the same title by Steve Shagan, . Jack Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, an executive at a Los Angeles apparel company on the edge of ruin. Throughout the film, Stoner struggles with the complexity of modern life versus the simplicity of his youth. He longs for the days when pitchers wound up, jazz filled the air, and the flag was more than a pattern to put... on a pants pocket. He wrestles with the guilt of surviving the war and yet losing touch with the ideals for which his friends died. To Harry Stoner, the world has given up on integrity, and threatens to destroy anyone who clings to it. He is caught between watching everything he has worked for evaporate, or becoming another grain of sand in the erosion of the values he once held so dear.
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| Release date: | February 14, 1973 |
| Directed by: | John G. Avildsen |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Martin Ransohoff, Edward S. Feldman, Steve Shagan |
| Editor: | David Bretherton |
| Screenplay by: | Steve Shagan |