The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

84 mins | Drama, Crime | Jan. 19, 1950

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.

The Blue Lamp

84 mins | Drama, Crime | Jan. 19, 1950

The Blue Lamp
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Ealing Studios, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Original title The Blue Lamp
Directors Harry Kratz, Basil Dearden
Writers Ted Willis, T. E. B. Clarke, Jan Read

Cast

Jack Warner

as PC George Dixon

Jimmy Hanley

as PC Andy Mitchell

Dirk Bogarde

as Tom Riley

Robert Flemyng

as Police Sgt. Roberts

Bernard Lee

as Inspector Cherry

Peggy Evans

as Diana Lewis

Patric Doonan

as Spud

Bruce Seton

as PC Campbell

Meredith Edwards

as PC Hughes

Frederick Piper

as Alf Lewis

Dora Bryan

as Maisie

Tessie O'Shea

as Herself

Clive Morton

as Police Sgt. Brooks

Gladys Henson

as Mrs Dixon