The Blue Lamp
- Released on
Crime, Thriller, Action
•- Runtime
- 84 mins
(52 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Jack Warner
- Jimmy Hanley
- Dirk Bogarde
- Robert Flemyng
- Bernard Lee
- Peggy Evans
- Patric Doonan
- Bruce Seton
- Meredith Edwards
- Clive Morton
- Frederick Piper
- Dora Bryan
- Gladys Henson
- Tessie O'Shea
- John Adams
- Muriel Aked
- Arnold Bell
- Alma Cogan
- Michael Corcoran
- Betty Ann Davies
- Rowland Douglas
- Renee Gadd
- Michael Golden
- Cameron Hall
- Melvyn Hayes
- Eric Henderson
- Charles Houston
- Glyn Houston
- Jennifer Jayne
- Gerry Judge
- Sam Kydd
- Duncan Lewis
- Arthur Lovegrove
- Jack May
- William Mervyn
- Glen Michael
- Arthur Mullard
- Richard Neller
- Rosemary Nicols
- Joe Phelps
- Paul Phillips
- Sidney Pointer
- John Salew
- Arthur Sandifer
- Stuart Saunders
- Charles Saynor
- Jack Sharp
- Norman Shelley
- Campbell Singer
- Anthony Steel
- Gwynne Whitby
- Billy Wilmot
- Doris Yorke
Director
- Basil Dearden
Producers
- Michael Balcon
Screenwriter
- T. E. B. Clarke