Released
The Blue Lamp
January 19 1950 (about 75 years ago)Rating
65
Based on
52 reviews
Sheds just enough light for MURDER
- Director: Basil Dearden
- Writer: T. E. B. Clarke
- Genres: Crime, Thriller, Action
- Runtime: 1 h 24 m
- Country: United Kingdom
- Companies: J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ealing Studios
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.
