Gideon's Day (1958)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 91m
Director: John Ford
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee, Anna Massey, Cyril Cusack, Howard Marion-Crawford
Synopsis:
A day in the working life of a Chief Inspector involves protecting an informant, apprehending a serial killer and solving a series of payday robberies, besides remembering his daughter's Academy concert and the wife's salmon for dinner.
Review:
Once you get over the fact that this Columbia-British crime pic was produced and directed by John Ford (rather than Charles Frend, say), what you have is a tight little drama with an interesting blend of light and serious elements recalling T.E.B. Clarke's Hue and Cry days. The only shame is that it is in colour, but even that allows for some fascinating glimpses of central London buildings and traffic as they were at the time.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 91m
Director: John Ford
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee, Anna Massey, Cyril Cusack, Howard Marion-Crawford
Synopsis:
A day in the working life of a Chief Inspector involves protecting an informant, apprehending a serial killer and solving a series of payday robberies, besides remembering his daughter's Academy concert and the wife's salmon for dinner.
Review:
Once you get over the fact that this Columbia-British crime pic was produced and directed by John Ford (rather than Charles Frend, say), what you have is a tight little drama with an interesting blend of light and serious elements recalling T.E.B. Clarke's Hue and Cry days. The only shame is that it is in colour, but even that allows for some fascinating glimpses of central London buildings and traffic as they were at the time.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 91m
Director: John Ford
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee, Anna Massey, Cyril Cusack, Howard Marion-Crawford
Synopsis:
A day in the working life of a Chief Inspector involves protecting an informant, apprehending a serial killer and solving a series of payday robberies, besides remembering his daughter's Academy concert and the wife's salmon for dinner.
Review:
Once you get over the fact that this Columbia-British crime pic was produced and directed by John Ford (rather than Charles Frend, say), what you have is a tight little drama with an interesting blend of light and serious elements recalling T.E.B. Clarke's Hue and Cry days. The only shame is that it is in colour, but even that allows for some fascinating glimpses of central London buildings and traffic as they were at the time.