Floodtide

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Floodtide
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Original pressbook
Directed by Frederick Wilson
Written by
  • George Blake
  • Donald B. Wilson
  • Frederick Wilson
Produced byDonald B. Wilson
Starring
Cinematography George Stretton
Edited by Peter Bezencenet
Music by Robert Irving
Production
company
Aquila Film
Distributed by General Film Distributors (UK)
Release dates
  • 15 March 1949 (1949-03-15)(London, UK)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited 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] [2]

Contents

The film was one of the four of David Rawnsley's films that used his "independent frame" technique, a form of back projection. [3]

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 Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The Clydebank shipyards make an effective setting for a story which, though conventional and often absurd, at least is unpretentiously told. Thanks to capable direction and camerawork the Glasgow background is convincing, though the same can hardly be said of such details as the design for the model ship. Gordon Jackson gives a sincere performance as David Shields, with Rona Anderson as Mary. Jimmy Logan and Elizabeth Sellars in supporting parts provide the two most successful characterisations." [4]

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". [5]

The Oxford Times wrote, "this is a classic town-and-country saga that is spiritedly played by an exceptional Scottish ensemble." [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Floodtide". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "Floodtide". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "The Brothers / Floodtide". Film @ The Digital Fix. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Floodtide". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 16 (181): 60. 1 January 1949 – via ProQuest.
  5. ↑ David Parkinson. "Floodtide". RadioTimes.
  6. ↑ "Floodtide". Park Circus. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
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