The Blue Lamp (1950)1h24
Crime · Thriller · Action
Director Basil Dearden
Also directed Dead of Night, Victim, Khartoum, and 39 more
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.
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Cast
Jack Warner
Jimmy Hanley
Dirk Bogarde
Robert Flemyng
Bernard Lee
Peggy Evans
Patric Doonan
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