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The Blue Lamp is a 1950 British police procedural film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell, and Dirk Bogarde as criminal Tom Riley. The title refers to the blue lamps that traditionally hung outside British police stations (and often still do).
The Blue Lamp: Directed by Basil Dearden. With Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng. The daily routine of two London Policemen is interrupted by a killer.
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This was an enjoyable crime drama focused on a rookie police constable, his father (also a policeman) and their pursuit of a group of small-time hoods turned murderers. Pretty decent acting. My pick for the best screamer goes to the sensuous blonde who pals around with the junior thugs.
The daily routine of two London Policemen is interrupted by a killer. We follow the daily activities of two London bobbies, veteran Police Constable George Dixon (Jack Warner) and rookie Police Constable Andy Mitchell (Jimmy Hanley).
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. Dirk Bogarde stars as a loose-cannon crook with Dixon of Dock Green (Jack Warner) on his tail, in the classic Ealing policier. 293 IMDb 6.8 1 h 24 min 1950. X-Ray 7+.
Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s. 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.
Jun 25, 2021 · In this classic Ealing Studios cops-and-robbers drama from 1950, postwar London is in the grip of a new war: according to Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp, the Blitzed streets of Blighty’s capital city are now overrun with the violent delinquent children of broken homes who all pack heat, steal and plunder for kicks, and don’t think twice ...
The film’s central villain, the young, pathological Tom Riley (Dirk Bogarde) metaphorically kills the old world when he murders veteran police officer George Dixon played by Jack Warner, who, by the way, would later become the protagonist of a popular British television series.
