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The Blue Lamp (1950)
Directed by Basil Dearden
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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.
Length 84 minutes
Actors
Jack Warner | Jimmy Hanley | Dirk Bogarde | Robert Flemyng | Bernard Lee | Peggy Evans | Patric Doonan | Bruce Seton | Meredith Edwards | Clive Morton | Frederick Piper | Dora Bryan | Gladys Henson | Tessie O'Shea | John Adams | Muriel Aked | Arnold Bell | Alma Cogan | Michael Corcoran | Betty Ann Davies | Rowland Douglas | Renee Gadd | Michael Golden | Cameron Hall | Melvyn Hayes | Eric Henderson | Charles Houston | Glyn Houston | Jennifer Jayne | Gerry Judge | Sam Kydd | Duncan Lewis | Arthur Lovegrove | Jack May | William Mervyn | Glen Michael | Arthur Mullard | Richard Neller | Rosemary Nicols | Joe Phelps | Paul Phillips | Sidney Pointer | John Salew | Arthur Sandifer | Stuart Saunders | Charles Saynor | Jack Sharp | Norman Shelley | Campbell Singer | Anthony Steel | Gwynne Whitby | Billy Wilmot | Doris Yorke
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/04/2013 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 6.5 stars |
| (Average) 6.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
An everyman story about the patrol officers who walk their beats in the streets of London. If it feels like familiar territory it’s only because many movies used The Blue Lamp as their blueprint.
A young Dirk Bogarde does a great turn as an amoralistic thief and murderer and some of the cinematography is excellent; worth a watch for those two things alone.
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