The Blue Lamp

Name: The Blue Lamp
Director: Basil Dearden
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action
Released: 1950-01-19
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Rating: 6.635
Cast: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee

“Sheds just enough light for MURDER”

1950

1h 24m

Crime Thriller Action

Director: Basil Dearden

Writers: T. E. B. Clarke, Jan Read

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.