Turn of the tide. The Man at the gate

Turn of the tide (80 min): This rarely seen British film, based on the novel ‘Three fevers’ by Leo Walmsley, was filmed on location at Robin Hood’s Bay and Whitby and tells the story of rivalry between two fishing families. It is set in the dramatically beautiful countryside of the Yorkshire coast. “The Man at the gate” (48 min): In 1940 Norman Walker put on his sea boots yet again and sent his location team down to Cornwall to shoot exteriors for a film which might have been regarded as a sequel. The story is centred around a fishing family, headed by Wilfrid Lawson.

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Credits

director

Norman Walker

co-producer

Lady Yule

J. Arthur Rank

John Corfield

production company

British National Films GHW Productions

Duration

02:08:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1935

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303620

Language

English

Subject categories

Adaptations

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain

Literature → English literature - Film and video adaptations

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1935

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