The Blue Lamp
1950 · TMDB 6.6
Directed by Basil Dearden
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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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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- Runtime
- 84 min
- Released
- 1950-01-19
- Studio
- J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.6
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Key contributors
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Basil Dearden
Director
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T. E. B. Clarke
Writer
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Jan Read
Writer
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Ted Willis
Writer
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Jack Warner
PC George Dixon
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Jimmy Hanley
PC Andy Mitchell
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Dirk Bogarde
Tom Riley
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Robert Flemyng
Police Sgt. Roberts
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Bernard Lee
Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry
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Peggy Evans
Diana Lewis
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Patric Doonan
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Bruce Seton
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