- Actors: John Garrick, J. Fisher White, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, Moore Marriott
- Directors: Norman Walker
- Writers: J.O.C. Orton, L. du Garde Peach, Leo Walmsley
- Producers: John Corfield
- Language English
- Classification: U
- Studio: Rtm
- VHS Release Date: 24 Jan 2000
- Run Time: 80 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00004CLDL
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 7,698 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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This was still an era in which cameras were usually bolted to the floor for everyone's safety, so the fluent location shots in 'Turn Of The Tide' come as a real pleasure and surprise. The editing is also much more subtle and helpful than you expect in such an early film. By the standards of its day this project had big backing, from Lord Rank, and it lived up to the hopes of its supporters. The story is rather sentimental, of course, and there isn't much doubt about the outcome. The accents are all over the place -- a quaint mixture of actors speaking p-r-o-p-e-r-l-y while trying to sound authentic, a patronising Shaftesbury Avenue attempt at how the working classes speak 'not that I actually know anyone who works up a sweat for a living, darling'. But bearing in mind that at the same time the BBC wouldn't let any real people on the wireless unless they were reading from a script, the acting is natural and passionate. The best parts of 'Turn Of The Tide' for me were the action sequences which are believable, quite tense and very atmospheric. 'Man At The Gate' is a much stiffer production, much more studio bound and it has probably failed the test of time. But it was a propaganda film in the dark days of the Second World War at a time that Britons really did think they were likely to be invaded, and so can be seen in that light as a curiosity. All good fun for students of early British cinema and sentimentalists of any age.
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