Gideon's Day

Gideon's Day (1958)

24 Tension-Taut Hours in the Life of a Top Crime Fighter!

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.

Date of release
1958-03-25
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (33)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Crime, Drama, Comedy
Director
John Ford

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Gideon's Day

Gideon's Day 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.

Production

The film, which was shot on location in and around London, was Anna Massey's cinematic debut (she was aged 19 at the time). Interiors were completed at the MGM-British Studios, Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, England.

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