The Blue Lamp (1950)
Sheds just enough light for MURDER
84 min
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.
- Release date
- January 19, 1950
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
Where to watch
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Cast
- Jack Warner as PC George Dixon
- Jimmy Hanley as PC Andy Mitchell
- Dirk Bogarde as Tom Riley
- Robert Flemyng as Detective Sgt. Roberts
- Bernard Lee as Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry
- Peggy Evans as Diana Lewis
- Patric Doonan as Spud
- Bruce Seton as PC 'Jock' Campbell
- Meredith Edwards as PC 'Taff' Hughes
- Clive Morton as Police Sgt. Brooks
- Frederick Piper as Alf Lewis
- Dora Bryan as Maisie
- Tessie O'Shea as Herself - Singer
- Muriel Aked as Mrs Beryl Waterbourne (Uncredited)
- Arnold Bell as Hospital Doctor (Uncredited)
- Michael Corcoran as Detective (Uncredited)
- Betty Ann Davies as Mary Bertha Lewis (Uncredited)
- Michael Golden as Mike Randall (Uncredited)
- Cameron Hall as Drunk (Uncredited)
- Melvyn Hayes as Blond Urchin (Uncredited)
- Charles Houston as Man in ID Parade (Uncredited)
- Glyn Houston as Barrow Boy (Uncredited)
- Jennifer Jayne as June (Uncredited)
Crew
- Basil Dearden · Director
- T.E.B. Clarke · Writer
- Jan Read · Writer
- Ted Willis · Writer
- Alexander Mackendrick · Writer
- Michael Balcon · Producer
- Gordon Dines · Cinematographer
- Peter Tanner · Editor