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The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 19, 1950

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Crime, Thriller, Action

User Score

66%

Original Title

The Blue Lamp

Production Companies

J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ealing Studios

Director

Basil Dearden

Description

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

Crew

Reviews

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Mustn't Grumble.

The Blue Lamp is directed by Basil Dearden and written by T.E.B. Clar...

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I think a lot of what makes this film resonate, even now 50-odd years later - is the stark fact t...

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