Floodtide

Floodtide

Original pressbook
Directed by Frederick Wilson
Produced by Donald B. Wilson
Written by George Blake
Donald B. Wilson
Frederick Wilson
Starring Gordon Jackson
Rona Anderson
John Laurie
Jimmy Logan
Music by Robert Irving
Cinematography George Stretton
Edited by Peter Bezencenet
Production
company
Aquila Film
Distributed by General Film Distributors (UK)
Release dates
15 March 1949 (London) (UK)
Running time
90 min.
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Floodtide is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by Frederick Wilson and starring Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie and Jimmy Logan.[1] The film was one of four of David Rawnsley's Aquila Films that used his proposed "independent frame" technique.[2]

Plot

A young Scotsman becomes a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming. He works his way up the firm, marries the boss's daughter, and revolutionises shipbuilding.

Cast

Critical reception

The Radio Times wrote, "the grim grandeur of the Clyde shipyards provides the setting for this lacklustre melodrama which trades on the British docudramatic tradition while dealing in potboiling clichés" ; [3] the Oxford Times wrote, "this is a classic town-and-country saga that is spiritedly played by an exceptional Scottish ensemble" ; [4] while Eye for Film wrote, "Industry is the real star of this film. It's full of passion for building a better future and it may well prove inspiring to engineers just starting out today." [5]

References

  1. "Floodtide". BFI.
  2. "The Brothers / Floodtide". Film @ The Digital Fix.
  3. David Parkinson. "Floodtide". RadioTimes.
  4. "Floodtide". Park Circus.
  5. "Floodtide". eyeforfilm.co.uk.

External links


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