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The Blue Lamp (1950)
Directed by Basil Dearden
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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.
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