The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

1950 · 84 min · EN · 6.8 (44 votes)
Dir. Basil Dearden · Starring Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee, Peggy Evans

Sheds just enough light for MURDER

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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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A stark, unflinching look at the darkening streets of London. It feels like a grim, authentic procedural, where every shadow hides a threat and the weight of the city presses down. A true taste of post-war British noir.

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