The Blue Lamp
1950 · 84 min
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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.
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Directed By
Basil DeardenWritten By
Jan Read, Ted WillisStudio
Ealing Studios, J. Arthur Rank OrganisationCast of The Blue Lamp
Jack WarnerPC George Dixon
Jimmy HanleyPC Andy Mitchell
Dirk BogardeTom Riley
Robert FlemyngPolice Sgt. Roberts
Bernard LeeInspector Cherry
Peggy EvansDiana Lewis
Patric DoonanSpud
Bruce SetonPC Campbell
Meredith EdwardsPC Hughes
Frederick PiperAlf Lewis
Dora BryanMaisie
Tessie O'SheaHerself
Clive MortonPolice Sgt. Brooks
Gladys HensonMrs Dixon