Ebb Tide [Unseen]

An unseen and presumably lost film. The Bioscope, 2 December 1931, reported that ‘Arthur Rosson, working on Paramount’s “Ebb Tide,” was shooting exteriors over the week-end at “The Prospect of Whitby,” [Wapping Wall] one of the oldest and best known public houses on the Thames water-front. Near old Wapping Stairs, it is a popular rendezvous amongst sailors and crews of tramp steamers engaged in the Pool of London, and has a similar clientele to that of ‘Charley Brown’s” in Limehouse. The other public house which will be seen in “Ebb Tide” is quite a Mecca for literary folk, having been immortalised by Charles Dickens. This is “The Bunch of Grapes,” [Narrow Street] whose ancient windows look out over the most fascinating of all London scenes, the busy shipping on the Thames.’ The Daily Mirror added, 11 December, ‘Passing through Regent’s Park on Wednesday morning, [9 December] I saw Joan Barry sitting, and shivering, in a boat on the canal. She was playing in a scene for “Ebb-Tide,” for which the full paraphernalia of a film studio had been brought into the Park. A huge lorry containing the technical equipment was installed on the pathway and a couple of sun-are lights added their efforts to those of the December sun. The Kinematograph Weekly, added, 17 December, that ‘Half the footage… is being shot in Thames dockside areas and on board a tramp steamer alongside the wharves.’