Crime / Thriller / Action

The Blue Lamp.

Name: The Blue Lamp
Director: Basil Dearden
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action
Released: 1950-01-19
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 6.6

Sheds just enough light for MURDER

6.6/ 1019501h 24mEN

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

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Directed by Basil Dearden

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STORY

Cast.

Jack Warner

PC George Dixon

Jimmy Hanley

PC Andy Mitchell

Dirk Bogarde

Tom Riley

Robert Flemyng

Police Sgt. Roberts

Bernard Lee

Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

Peggy Evans

Diana Lewis

Patric Doonan

Spud

Bruce Seton

PC 'Jock' Campbell

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