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The Blue Lamp

  • Film
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Time Out says

The film that spawned George Dixon, of 'Dock Green' fame, here presented as the perfect friendly bobby, teaching new recruit Hanley the rules of the game, until halfway through he is shot and killed by Bogarde's reckless delinquent. Thereafter the film details the search for the killer, but it's less interesting as a thriller than as a cosy, rosy depiction of both the police and the society in which they function, ever ready to help the bobbies in their quest for justice. Very, very British, and not a patch on its far tougher, darker Hollywood counterparts.
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Release Details

  • Duration:84 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Basil Dearden
  • Screenwriter:TEB Clarke
  • Cast:
    • Jack Warner
    • Jimmy Hanley
    • Dirk Bogarde
    • Peggy Evans
    • Patric Doonan
    • Robert Flemyng
    • Bernard Lee
    • Meredith Edwards
    • Gladys Henson
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