The Raging Tide is a 1951 American crime film noir directed by George Sherman and starring Shelley Winters, Richard Conte, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford and Alex Nicol. The screenplay was written by Ernest K. Gann based on his 1950 novel Fiddler's Green.
San Francisco crime boss Bruno Felkin kills a mob rival and then tries to arrange an alibi with his girlfriend Connie Thatcher. However, Connie is not available, which forces Felkin to hide on a fishing boat owned by Hamil Linder until she appears. Felkin tries to enlist Linder's son Carl to perform work for him until the police stop their search. Felkin and Connie are gradually reformed by the decency and humanity of the Linder family. A cop named Kelsey continues to pursue Felkin.
During filming at the Universal Pictures studio, large numbers of seagulls flew into the soundstage and interrupted filming, attracted by the three tons of halibut, albacore and other fish that had been transported from San Francisco as props for waterfront scenes.
Critic John L. Scott of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Gann's screen play has its momentsâÂÂat the start and at the finishâÂÂbut seems to sag in the middle. The author builds up a state of mental confusion in his main character (the gangster) and this is passed on to the spectator, who may flounder a bit before Conte is regenerated and sacrifices himself as a do-gooder."