Gideon’s Day (1958)

It’s not surprising that this later was later adapted into a television show. It feels like a long episode of any television police procedural over the years and easily works as a pilot movie. Focusing on both the professional and personal aspects of a day in the life of Jack Hawkins’s Scotland Yard inspector, it’s interesting that it came so soon after my viewing of Working Girls, another movie focusing on one day in a worker’s life. While watching this one, I somewhat imagined an episode of some other television show juxtaposing the days of these two individuals employed on opposite sides of the law. That has the potential to be a bit deeper and engaging than this watchable, but relatively lightweight police drama.