The Rushing Tide is a 1927 Australian silent film about the search for a hoard of diamonds.
[4] Harold Wilson inherits a map showing the location of a hoard of diamonds.
On a lonely stretch of the coast they meet Ruth Jeffries and her father, a fugitive from the police, who has the diamonds.
Howard steals the diamonds, kills Jeffries, abducts Ruth, and puts Harold and his wife in an open boat out to sea.
It was shot in July 1927 partly in an old cinema in the Melbourne suburb of Glenhuntly which had been converted into a studio, with location work done near Portsea, Victoria, at Sorrento, Beauamris and Black Bock, Melbourne.