Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1950-01-19) |
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| Awards: | Won 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 1 nomination total |
| Screen: | T.E.B. Clarke, Jan Read, Ted Willis |
| Productions: | J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ealing Studios |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 100343: Jack Warner - PC George Dixon
- 108680: Jimmy Hanley - PC Andy Mitchell
- 21605: Dirk Bogarde - Tom Riley
- 41958: Robert Flemyng - Police Sgt. Roberts
- 9874: Bernard Lee - Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry
- 117042: Peggy Evans - Diana Lewis
- 240219: Patric Doonan - Spud
Crews
- 29504: Basil Dearden - Director - Directing
- 107455: T. E. B. Clarke - Screenplay - Writing
- 238950: Gordon Dines - Director of Photography - Camera
- 69765: Jan Read - Writer - Writing
- 3601: Michael Balcon - Producer - Production
- 1236666: Ted Willis - Writer - Writing
- 1340060: Chic Waterson - Camera Operator - Camera
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Reviews
John Chard
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Mustn't Grumble. The Blue Lamp is directed by Basil Dearden and written by T.E.B. Clarke. It stars Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng and Peggy Evans. Music is by Ernest Irving and cinematography by Gordon Dines. Andy Mitchell is a new recruit to the London ....
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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 a ....
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