The Blue Lamp
The Blue Lamp
Release: 1950-01-19
·Runtime: 84m
·★ 6.6
Crime
Thriller
Action
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Ealing Studios
Cast
Jack Warner
as PC George Dixon
Jimmy Hanley
as PC Andy Mitchell
Dirk Bogarde
as Tom Riley
Robert Flemyng
as Police Sgt. Roberts
Bernard Lee
as Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry
Peggy Evans
as Diana Lewis
Patric Doonan
as Spud
Bruce Seton
as PC 'Jock' Campbell
Meredith Edwards
as PC 'Taff' Hughes
Clive Morton
as Police Sgt. Brooks
Frederick Piper
as Alf Lewis
Dora Bryan
as Maisie
Gladys Henson
as Mrs Em Dixon
Tessie O'Shea
as Herself - Singer
Muriel Aked
as Mrs Beryl Waterbourne (Uncredited)
Betty Ann Davies
as Mary Bertha Lewis (Uncredited)
Renee Gadd
as Woman Driver (Uncredited)
Cameron Hall
as Drunk (Uncredited)
Melvyn Hayes
as Blond Urchin (Uncredited)
Glyn Houston
as Barrow Boy (Uncredited)
Jennifer Jayne
as June (Uncredited)
Sam Kydd
as Bookmaker's Assistant at White City (Uncredited)
Jack May
as Old Man in Crowd (Uncredited)
William Mervyn
as Chief Inspector Hammond (Uncredited)
Arthur Mullard
as PC at Darts Game (Uncredited)
Rosemary Nicols
as Urchin (Uncredited)
John Salew
as Officious Man (Uncredited)
Norman Shelley
as F.P. Jordan (Uncredited)
Campbell Singer
as Station Sergeant (Uncredited)
Anthony Steel
as Police Constable (Uncredited)
Arthur Rigby
as Policeman at Station(uncredited)
