The Blue Lamp

THE BLUE LAMP - 1950 - B&W

STARRING

JACK WARNER, JIMMY HANLEY, DIRK BOGARDE, ROBERT FLEMYNG.

WITH BERNARD LEE, PEGGY EVENS AND GLADYS HENSON.

"AN EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE POLICE PROCEDURAL THRILLER.......
EALING STUDIOS DRAMA AT ITS BEST"..........THE TIMES

An immenseley popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp was scripted by
ex-policeman T.E.B Clarke, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio's
post-war identity.

The film concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen.
Jack Warner heads the cast as George Dixon, a veteran "bobby" who is murdered by
small-time delinquents Dirk
Bogarde and Patrick Doonan. Rookie cop Jimmy Hanley, who'd looked upon Warner as a father
figure, embarks on a perilous search to bring Dixon's killers to justice.

Shot in a pioneering semi-documentary style that focuses on ordinary
heroes, the film offers an insightful examination of a new breed of
young criminal, hardened by the war years, whose recklessness and
violence contrasts with the discipline of the older criminal fraternity.
Jack Warner's George Dixon made a remarkable recovery from his untimely death, becoming
know to millions of TV viewers as Dixon of Dock Green.