Floodtide
7.2 /10 1 Votes7.2
Director Frederick Wilson Country United Kingdom | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 15 March 1949 (London) (UK) Writer George Blake, Donald B. Wilson, Frederick Wilson Screenplay Frederick Wilson, George Blake, Donald B. Wilson Cast Similar movies These Foolish Things (2005), That Lady (1955), Beyond the Fire (2009), Ae Fond Kiss (2004), Butterfly Man (2002) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A shipyard worker (Gordon Jackson) falls in love with his bosss daughter (Rona Anderson) while working his way to the top.
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Floodtide is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by Frederick Wilson and starring Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie and Jimmy Logan. The film was one of four of David Rawnsleys Aquila Films that used his proposed "independent frame" technique.
David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building
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 bosss 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 cliches" ; the Oxford Times wrote, "this is a classic town-and-country saga that is spiritedly played by an exceptional Scottish ensemble" ; while Eye for Film wrote, "Industry is the real star of this film. Its full of passion for building a better future and it may well prove inspiring to engineers just starting out today."
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