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Movie

The Blue Lamp

Sheds just enough light for MURDER

1950 · 1h 24m

Directed by Basil Dearden

6.6

TMDB audience score
64 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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
    PC George Dixon

  • Jimmy Hanley
    PC Andy Mitchell

  • Dirk Bogarde
    Tom Riley

  • Robert Flemyng
    Police Sgt. Roberts

  • Bernard Lee
    Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

  • Peggy Evans
    Diana Lewis

  • Patric Doonan
    Spud

  • Bruce Seton
    PC 'Jock' Campbell

  • Meredith Edwards
    PC 'Taff' Hughes

  • Clive Morton
    Police Sgt. Brooks

  • Frederick Piper
    Alf Lewis

  • Dora Bryan
    Maisie

  • Gladys Henson
    Mrs Em Dixon

  • Tessie O'Shea
    Herself - Singer

  • John Adams
    PC at Darts Match (Uncredited)

  • Muriel Aked
    Mrs Beryl Waterbourne (Uncredited)

  • Arnold Bell
    Hospital Doctor (Uncredited)

  • Alma Cogan
    Girl (Uncredited)