This has just aired at 1.20 p.m. on British television and all I can say is it would have been better to screen it at 4 a.m. or, better yet, turn it into banjo picks. I struggled to stay awake and had to force myself to keep watching. Seldom have I seen anything more dire. I've always found John Ford vastly overrated but he must have phoned this one in from Monument Valley. Even John Paddy Carstairs would be reluctant to take a credit for this inept, unexciting, indifferent blancmange. Virtually every second-rater in the British film industry at the time is wheeled out and given two minutes or so and the only reason to name them would be in order to spin this notice out into the required ten lines that IMDb insist upon but as I've achieved that I'll leave them unmolested though I can't say with any conviction unembarrassed. Run a mile from this garbage.
Review of Gideon of Scotland Yard
