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Floodtide is a British film of genre Drama directed by Frederick Wilson with Gordon Jackson
Floodtide (1949)
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Add to a movie listFloodtide 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.
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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.Actors
Gordon Jackson
(David Shields)
Rona Anderson
(Mary Anstruther)
John Laurie
(Joe Drummond)
Jack Lambert
(Anstruther)
Jimmy Logan
(Tim Brogan)
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