Flood Tide (1958)
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Flood Tide can be described as The Children's Hour gone ballistic. Michel Ray is David Gordon a sweet-faced little boy who dotes on his widowed mother Anne (Cornell Borchers) - but has a nasty, pathological penchant for lying. When a body washes up on the beach and a man is arrested, David tells a few "convenient" lies that get the fellow arrested. The owner of the adjacent beach house, Steve Martin (George Nader) returns from a trip, learns of the situation, and discusses in detail why he thinks the boy is being deceptive; he then spends the rest of the movie romantically pursuing Anne while attempting to earn David's trust and extract a confession from him that will free the unjustly convicted fellow. Flood Tide was directed by Abner Biberman, who as a former movie villain had a good grasp of what makes a sociopath tick--even a ten-year-old one. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- George Nader - Steve Martin
- Michael Ray - David Gordon
- Joanna Moore - Barbara Brooks
- Russ Conway - Bill Holleran
- John Maxwell - John Brighton
- Hugh Lawrence - Charlie
- Alastair Hunter - Dick Crawjord
- Elizabeth Sellars
- Janet Brown - Rosie
- Ian Wallace - Director
- John Laurie - Joe Drummond
- Archie Duncan - Charlie Cambell
- Cornell Borchers - Anne Gordon
- Judson Pratt - Harvey Thornwald
- Charles Arnt - Mr. Appleby
- John Morley - Detective Lieutenant
- Carl Bensen - District Attorney
- Rona Anderson - Mary Anstruther
- Jack Lambert - Anstruther
- Jimmy Logan - Tim Brogan
- Molly Weir - Mrs. MacTavish
- Gordon McLeod - Pursen
- Gordon Jackson - David Shields
- Alexander Archdale - Director
- Director(s):
- Abner Biberman
- Writer(s):
- Dorothy Cooper
- Producer(s):
- Robert Arthur
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