The Blue Lamp
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United Kingdom · 1950
1h 24m
Director Basil Dearden
Starring Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng
Genre Crime, Drama
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P.C. George Dixon (Warner) 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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