The Blue Lamp (1950)
"Sheds just enough light for MURDER"
Title: The Blue Lamp
Original Title: The Blue Lamp
Release Date: 1950-01-19
Status: Released
Rating: 6.585/10 (from 59 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Action
Production Companies: J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ealing Studios
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.
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
Meredith Edwards
PC 'Taff' Hughes
Clive Morton
Police Sgt. Brooks