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