Details

Release year: 1935

Storyline

The arrival in a Yorkshire fishing village of the Lunns with a modern fishing boat is deeply resented by the Fosdycks. Eventually hostilities are overcome and the families join forces to get a modern deep sea fishing boat.

Top credits

Directors

Norman Walker

Writers

Cast

John Garrick — Marney Lunn
J. Fisher White — Isaac Fosdyck
Geraldine Fitzgerald — Ruth Fosdyck
Wilfrid Lawson — Luke Fosdyck

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Did you know

• This was the first feature film to be made by J. Arthur Rank, who up until then had only made religious short films. He was very dissatisfied with the studio facilities he was given at Elstree; and because of his enthusiasm for continued film-making, decided to have his own studios. And so he joined with a man called Henry Boot, and together they founded and built Pinewood Studios.

• The fishing jersey is known locally as a "gansey." Each fishing jersey had a pattern unique to the family to identify corpses. The jersey pattern used in the film for the Lunn family was the Duke pattern.

• The lifeboat is shown going to the rescue of a large ship. There were no model shots in a studio tank, it was all done for real running a steamship around in the bay for the cameras. It was an ambitious project for a low budget 1935 film, but some of the shots of the captain on the deck appear to show him on the end of Whitby pier.