The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

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  • Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action
  • Release Date: 1950-01-19
  • Runtime: 84 minutes
  • : 6.538
  • Production Company: J. Arthur Rank Organisation
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
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6.538/10
6.538
From 52 Ratings

Description

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.

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Reviews

  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    I think a lot of what makes this film resonate, even now 50-odd years later - is the stark fact that back then, the murder of a police officer was still pretty rare and was a crime guaranteed to galvanise both the police and the criminal fraternities alike against the culprit. That all helps to create an authentic scenario in which Dirk Bogarde is super as a petty thief who gets caught up in events that quickly run out of control. Peggy Evans is great, too, as the hysterical girlfriend. Basil Dearden keeps the whole thing tense and engrossing as the net begins to close and we get a gripping finale to this fairly simple film.

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