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An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B.Clarke, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio's post-war identity.
The film concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Jack Warner heads the cast as George Dixon, a veteran "bobby" who is murdered by small-time delinquents Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan. Rookie cop Jimmy Hanley, who'd looked upon Warner as a father figure, embarks on a perilous search to bring Dixon's killers to justice.
Shot in a pioneering semi-documentary style that focuses on ordinary heroes, the film offers an insightful examination of a new breed of young criminal, hardened by the war years, whose recklessness and violence contrasts with the discipline of the older criminal fraternity. Jack Warner's George Dixon made a remarkable recovery from his untimely death, becoming known to millions of TV viewers as Dixon.
- StudioCanal
- Basil Dearden
- PG
- Dirk Bogarde
- Robert Flemyng
- Jimmy Hanley
- Gladys Henson
- Bernard Lee
- Jack Warner
- Peggy Evens
- Full Screen,Aspect Ratio 4:3
- 1950
- English
- 1
- 2
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An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B.Clarke, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio's post-war identity.
The film concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Jack Warner heads the cast as George Dixon, a veteran "bobby" who is murdered by small-time delinquents Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan. Rookie cop Jimmy Hanley, who'd looked upon Warner as a father figure, embarks on a perilous search to bring Dixon's killers to justice.
Shot in a pioneering semi-documentary style that focuses on ordinary heroes, the film offers an insightful examination of a new breed of young criminal, hardened by the war years, whose recklessness and violence contrasts with the discipline of the older criminal fraternity. Jack Warner's George Dixon made a remarkable recovery from his untimely death, becoming known to millions of TV viewers as Dixon.
- StudioCanal
- Basil Dearden
- PG
- Dirk Bogarde
- Robert Flemyng
- Jimmy Hanley
- Gladys Henson
- Bernard Lee
- Jack Warner
- Peggy Evens
- Full Screen,Aspect Ratio 4:3
- 1950
- English
- 1
- 2
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The Blue Lamp
We watched The Blue Lamp last night & enjoyed it very much.It was a flash back to the 1950`s when police were more than just an upholder of the law.Of course there were the baddies & the goodies as there are in every day life. We have also been able to obtain a few episodes of the TV series Dixon of Dock Green .This movie was a sort of pilot for that show although when the movie was made no one as far as I know had the TV series in mind. very enjoyable
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