The Blue Lamp

Original title: The Blue Lamp

84 minutes • 1950 • 6.6 Score

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.

Basil Dearden

Director