Gideon of Scotland Yard

1958

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1820 1.8K

london, england police scotland yard murder police procedural

Plot summary

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.

Director

John Ford Photo
John Ford

Top cast

Jack Watling Photo
Jack Watling as Rev Julian Small
Jimmy Charters Photo
Jimmy Charters as Workman
John Le Mesurier Photo
John Le Mesurier as Prosecuting Barrister
Howard Marion-Crawford Photo
Howard Marion-Crawford as The Chief
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682.83 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
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1.36 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ianlouisiana 7 / 10

Perhaps Mr Ford thought our policemen were wonderful.......

Reviewed by bkoganbing 7 / 10

One of those days

Hollywood's chronicler of Irish culture John Ford chose a British subject for this film. Gideon Of Scotland Yard is about a day in the life of a high ranking inspector in Scotland Yard. Jack Hawkins plays the hard working an often exasperated inspector who gets a lot accomplished during this particular day, but he's frustrated by both work and home problems.Our Inspector Gideon is a happily married man to Anna Lee and has a daughter Anna Massey who is a violin virtuoso. One of the minor plot lines involving Lee giving Hawkins specific instruction to pick up a salmon at the fish market. Hawkins has far more to fry than fish during this day.One is the sex killing of a young girl by a very creepy Laurence Naismith and the hunt for him. He's apprehended by an alert young Bobby played by Andrew Ray who otherwise manages to make a pest of himself all around with his earnest dedication to the job. The incident is similar to another sex killing in Sergeant Rutledge although in that film Ford made it the entire film.The main plot however involves Hawkins confronting another inspector Derek Bond and telling him that their version of Internal Affairs has him nailed on corruption. Later on Bond is run down by a car deliberately and that starts Hawkins on an investigation that leads to the apprehension of some major criminals during a heist.I have to single out Cyril Cusack who played a stoolie and just the kind of colorful character that Ford would put in one of his Irish films. He's got some nasty people after him, but apparently lives a charmed life.A very entertaining film by John Ford, not one of his more known works, but definitely worth a look.
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