Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Wordiezett So much average

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

alanwriterman With reference to the cardboard bridge and fake 'bus being pulled across it in "Gideons Day ", the same bizarre thing happens in the 1961 film "No Love For Johnnie ".Whenever Peter Finch and his fellow actors are on the terrace of the House Of Commons ( a studio set )with Westminster Bridge in the background, the bridge is obviously a piece of scenery and every now and then a flat cardboard 'bus and the occasional car can be seen juddering back and for. In real life of course, even in 1961 there would have been a constant stream of traffic on the bridge.It's an unbelievably ( and laughably ) cheap effect, especially in such a gritty, kitchen-sink style political drama which was pretty sensational stuff at the time of its release. Yet no one mentions it on the films IMDb page!

bsmith5552 "Gideon's Day" is an almost forgotten John Ford film about a Scotland Yard Chief Inspector's typical day in his life. It was filmed in England by Columbia Pictures British Division and has an almost all British cast.The picture was filmed in color by Ford and originally ran at 118 minutes. For it's American release, it was cut to 91 minutes and released in black and white re-titled "Gideon of Scotland Yard". Turner Classic Movies has released a restored version of the film (running 100 minutes) in color, as part of its John Ford's Columbia Pictures package.Jack Hawkins plays Chief Inspector George Gideon whom we follow through a "typical" day in his life. First we meet his family, wife Kate (Anna Lee)and daughter Sally (Anna Massey) and two younger children. On his way to his office he is given a traffic ticket by an over zealous constable (Andrew Ray) who keeps turning up over the course of Gideon's day.Over the course of the day Gideon has to deal with one of his detectives, Kirby (Derek Bond), who is caught taking bribes, a payroll robbery, a sex/murder, a deliberate traffic murder and a robbery/murder at a safety deposit box facility. All the time he has to attend to several family matters on the go. His day begins early in the morning and ends in the dark of the evening.Hawkins is excellent as Gideon and pretty well has to carry the whole film. Grizelda Harvey contributes a sympathetic performance as Kirby's wife who first tries to protect her husband and then is forced to accept the truth. Others in the cast include Dianne Foster and Ronald Howard as a husband and wife criminal team, Cyril Cusack as informant "Birdie" Sparrow, Maureen Potter as his wife who has a funny scene with Hawkins in a pub and Howard Marion-Crawford as "The Chief".Howard and Marion-Crawford played Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the 1954-55 British TV series. Anna Massey was the daughter of actor Raymond Massey and the sister of Daniel Massey.Hawkins was one year removed from his performance in "The Bridge On the River Quai" and was about to embark on his role as Quintas Arias in Ben-Hur.All in all "Gideon's Day" is an excellent film worthy of wider acclaim. Perhaps the above-mentioned DVD release will do the trick.

Tim Kidner This rarely seen (or shown) rarity from the great westerns director John Ford, was screened recently as Channel 4's weekday lunchtime movie. The film's alternative title, 'Gideon of Scotland Yard' gives us a clearer picture of where it is set and what it is about.Not paying much attention to what it said in Radio Times beforehand, I assumed it was a Dixon Of Dock Green sort of black & white semi- documentary, along the lines of the excellent 'Blue Lamp'.For a start, it's in colour and opens with breakfast time with the family, for Inspector Jack Gideon, all brisk and jovial. His drive to work results in going through a red light and is embarrassingly challenged by a youth PC.From here-on in, the comedic elements dissipate as Insp Gideon's day unfolds, with phone calls and leads, all going on to illustrate 'the day in the life' that is the title. The mixture of crime is, obviously quite innocent when compared to today and the likes of 'The Bill', but this is 1958 and the censors were always prevalent, not that I'm suggesting that Ford would have set out to paint an overly colourful scenario.The script is by Ealing Studio regular T.E.B Clarke, from John Creasey's novel and whilst it's not exactly electric, it's brisk enough, with a light tone and those of a certain age will find much pleasure in the period detail, scenes around London and the general way of doing things 'back then'.Such viewers might have wanted to give a higher score than I am, though. To be honest, the direction could have been done by anyone proficient and whilst the studio-bound indoor sets are well done, they are just that, though also to be fair, Insp Gideon is seen going about between locations enough to remind us that he's very busy...Finally, there is a nice John Ford sense of irony at the end though, which gives a real sense of satisfaction.

Neil Doyle JOHN FORD seems a strange choice to be directing a British film starring JACK HAWKINS in the role of a very busy Scotland Yard inspector who has no time for anyone else in his domestic life as long as he's on the trail of various culprits. ANNA LEE is his patient wife at home who's more concerned with raising two children and cooking meals to pay much attention to her husband's urgent calls of duty.It's a very fragmented kind of story-telling, more a series of vignettes featuring Hawkins in his role as detective, getting able assistance from JOHN LODER (Hedy Lamarr's ex-hubby during the '40s). He covers cases involving a psychotic killer, a hit and run murder and a bank robbery--with some wit and sardonic humor injected into all the proceedings by director Ford. DEREK BOND, ANDREW RAY and ANNA MASSEY (her film debut) round out the supporting cast.Summing up: Above average thanks to some interesting, very flawed characters involved in crime and a brisk pace and brief running time that deserves praise in this day of films that go on and on forever, although the film was not a critical or commercial success.