Gideon's Day (1958)

Directed by

John Ford

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Scotland Yard inspector handles a series of cases on a single day. He deals with a murder, a burglary, and his daughter's boyfriend among other routine police matters.

light-heartedmeasuredobservationalgroundedroutinemildday-in-the-lifeorderly

What happens

Gideon's Day (U.S. title: Gideon of Scotland Yard) is a 1958 police procedural crime film directed by John Ford and starring Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster and Cyril Cusack. The screenplay was by T.E.B. Clarke, adapted from the 1955 novel of the same title by John Creasey (credited under his pen-name "J.J. Marric"). This was the first film to feature a character named George Gideon, but Jack Hawkins had played a similar role in the British film The Long Arm (1956) two years earlier. Gideon was later played by John Gregson in the TV series Gideon's Way. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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