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The Blue Lamp

(1950)

January 19, 1950• 1h 24m
66%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Basil Dearden

Director

Top Billed Cast

JW

Jack Warner

PC George Dixon

JH

Jimmy Hanley

PC Andy Mitchell

DB

Dirk Bogarde

Tom Riley

RF

Robert Flemyng

Police Sgt. Roberts

BL

Bernard Lee

Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

PE

Peggy Evans

Diana Lewis

PD

Patric Doonan

Spud

BS

Bruce Seton

PC 'Jock' Campbell

ME

Meredith Edwards

PC 'Taff' Hughes

CM

Clive Morton

Police Sgt. Brooks