“Famous as the film that brought British tycoon J. Arthur Rank into the movies (he financed it, and when it did poorly he decided that the only way to succeed with such films was to become a producer-distributor-exhibitor), Turn of the Tide deserves to be better known as part of an unofficial trilogy that also encompasses Flaherty's Man of Aran and Michael Powell's The Edge of the World. A rich and human story of conflict between old and new among the fishing clans of the Northern coasts of England. Superbly photographed by Franz Planer, Max Ophuls' favorite cameraman.” (William K. Everson) The story involves the rivalry between two families, the Fosdycks and the Lunns, and the Romeo-and-Juliet-like love that develops between two of their children.