The Blue Lamp(1950)

movie - first aired/released 1950-01-19 - 84 min - audience 6.6

Crime, Thriller, Action

Directed by Basil Dearden

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.