Flood Tide | |
Director: | John Baxter |
Producer: | Julius Hagen |
Music: | William Trytel |
Cinematography: | Ernest Palmer |
Editing: | Lister Laurance |
Studio: | Real Art Productions |
Distributor: | RKO Pictures |
Runtime: | 63 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Flood Tide is a 1934 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring George Carney, Janice Adair and Minnie Rayner. It was made at Twickenham Studios as a quota quickie for release by RKO Pictures.[1]
The sets were designed by James A. Carter, the regular Twickenham art director. Many scenes of the film were shot on location along the River Thames.
A retiring lockkeeper and his wife are concerned that their son Ted Salter, who is serving in the Royal Navy should settle down and start a family. They hope that this will be with his childhood sweetheart Betty the daughter of their old friend Captain Bill Buckett who operates a boat on the River Thames. However Ted has taken up with a flirtatious barmaid, at one point even risking arrest as a deserter because of her before reconciling with Betty. The film ends with Bill Buckett triumphing in an annual regatta.
The Bargee, for a film with further canal, inland-waterway, footage.