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The Blue Lamp

Year:

1950

Duration:

84 min

Genres:

IMDB rate:

Director:

Basil Dearden

Awards:

Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1950-06-01

Filming Locations: Ealing Studios, Ealing, London, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Jennifer Jayne

Jack Warner

PC George Dixon

Jimmy Hanley

PC Andy Mitchell

Dirk Bogarde

Tom Riley

Robert Flemyng

Police Sgt. Roberts

Bernard Lee

Inspector Cherry

Peggy Evans

Diana Lewis

Patric Doonan

Spud

Bruce Seton

PC Campbell

Meredith Edwards

PC Hughes

Clive Morton

Police Sgt. Brooks

Frederick Piper

Alf Lewis

Dora Bryan

Maisie

Gladys Henson

Mrs Dixon

Tessie O'Shea

Herself

Muriel Aked

Mrs. Waterboume (uncredited)

Alma Cogan

Bit Part (uncredited)

Betty Ann Davies

Mary Bertha Lewis (uncredited)

Rowland Douglas

Cinema doorman (uncredited)

Renee Gadd

Woman Driver (uncredited)

Michael Golden

Mike Randall (uncredited)

Cameron Hall

Drunk (uncredited)

Glyn Houston

Barrow Boy (uncredited)

Sam Kydd

Bookmakers Assistant White City (uncredited)

William Mervyn

Chief Inspector Hammond (uncredited)

Glen Michael

Larry (uncredited)

Arthur Mullard

PC at Darts Game (uncredited)

Gene Neighbors

Queenie (uncredited)

Rosemary Nicols

Cockney Urchin (uncredited)

Sidney Pointer

Supt. Harwood (uncredited)

Arthur Rigby

Policeman at Station (uncredited)

John Salew

Officious Man (uncredited)

Charles Saynor

PC Tovey (uncredited)

Norman Shelley

F.P. Jordan (uncredited)

Campbell Singer

Station Sergeant (uncredited)

Anthony Steel

Police Constable (uncredited)

Gwynne Whitby

Police Sgt. Grace Millard

Doris Yorke

Cinema Cashier (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The first film to use the word "bastard" in its dialogue.

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Both Jack Warner and Richard Widmark play policemen who get killed in a feature film and then go on to play the same character in a TV series, Jack Warner in "Dixon of Dock Green" for the BBC and Richard Widmark in "Madigan" for Universal TV.

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Apart from occasional tunes in the background, no musical score was added to the soundtrack, enforcing the realistic aspect of the film.

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Goofs

As PC Dixon leaves the police station to go on his beat he picks his cape and puts it over his shoulder. A short while later he's seen on his beat but his cape has disappeared

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George Dixon may have put the cape into the local police call box before starting his beat.

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When car 5-D makes a turn at supposed high speed, just after PC Mitchell says "There they are", a woman and two children on the pavement at the left are also walking slightly faster than usual.

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Quotes

Diana Lewis: What d'ye think I am? Soft or something?

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