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 date	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. The film was one of four of David Rawnsley's Aquila Films that used his proposed "independent frame" technique.

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.

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" ; 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. It's full of passion for building a better future and it may well prove inspiring to engineers just starting out today."