The Blue Lamp

Name: The Blue Lamp
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action
Released: 19 Jan 1950
Rating: 6.60
Cast: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee

Sheds just enough light for MURDER 1950-01-19 United Kingdom 84 minutes.

6.60 55 votes

Crime Thriller Action film noir policeman british noir

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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.

Year 1950

Studio J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ealing Studios

Director Basil Dearden

Crew Basil Dearden (Director), T. E. B. Clarke (Screenplay), Michael Balcon (Producer), Gordon Dines (Director of Photography), Jan Read (Writer), Ted Willis (Writer)

Popularity 1

Language English