Film
The Blue Lamp
United Kingdom- Age rating
- PG
- Director
- Basil Dearden
- Year
- 1950
Sheds just enough light for MURDER
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.
Top 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)
Directed by
Basil Dearden
Written by
T. E. B. Clarke, Jan Read, Ted Willis
Produced by
Michael Balcon
