The Blue Lamp (Original title)

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Dates: 1949 (Copyright), 20 February 1950 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Basil Dearden

Synopsis: A pair of young crooks, carry out a robbery which ends in the murder of a P.C. They are traced, tracked and finally captured by the police and the C.I.D.

Genre: Police drama

Subject: Homicide

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Releases
Date: 1950Country: Federal Republic of GermanyRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundDialogue (original): German
Date: 20 February 1950Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 84 mins Length: 7547 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: General Film Distributors
Date: 1990Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: VHS Videocassette - Black and White - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Virgin
Date: 2017Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 84 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

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©: Ealing Studios, Production Company: Ealing Studios, Presents: The Rank Organisation, Released through: General Film Distributors, Produced by: Michael Balcon, Associate Producer: Michael Relph, Unit Production Manager: L.C. Rudkin, [Production Manager (2nd Unit)]: Ralph D. Hogg, Production Supervisor: Hal Mason, [2nd Unit Director]: Alexander Mackendrick, Assistant Director: Harry Kratz, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: John Meadows, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: John Assig, [Assistant Director (2nd Unit)]: Norman Priggen, Continuity: Jean Graham, [Assistant Continuity]: Susan Carbutt, [Continuity (2nd Unit)]: Phyllis Crocker, Screenplay by: T.E.B. Clarke, Original Treatment by: Jan Read, Ted Willis, Additional Dialogue by: Alexander Mackendrick, Director of Photography: Gordon Dines, 2nd Unit Photographer: Lionel Banes, Camera Operator: Chic Waterson, [Camera Operator (2nd Unit)]: Jeff Seaholme, [Focus Puller]: Herbert Smith, [Focus Puller (2nd Unit)]: Hugh Wilson, [Clapper Loader]: Ken Westbury, [Stills]: Bob Penn, Editor: Peter Tanner, [Assistant Editor]: Gordon Stone, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Roy Baker, Art Director: Jim Morahan, [Assistant Art Director]: Len Wills, [Set Dresser]: Andrew Low, Costume Designer: Anthony Mendleson, [Wardrobe Master]: Ernest Farrar, [Wardrobe Mistress]: Lily Payne, [Wardrobe Assistant]: Ron Beck, Make-up: Ernest Taylor, Make-up: Harry Frampton, [Assistant Make-up]: Harry Wilton, [Hairdresser]: Daphne Martin, Music Director: Ernest Irving, Sound Supervisor: Stephen Dalby, Recorder: Arthur Bradburn, [Boom Operator]: Cyril Swern, Logo [Sound System]: RCA Sound System, Sound System: RCA Sound System, Sound System: Gaumont British - Kalee, Made at: Ealing Studios

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Jack Warner (P.C George Dixon), Jimmy Hanley (P.C. Andy Mitchell), Dirk Bogarde (Tom Riley), Robert Flemyng (Sergeant Roberts), Bernard Lee (Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry), Peggy Evans (Diana Lewis), Patric Doonan (Spud), Bruce Seton (P.C. Jock Campbell), Meredith Edwards (P.C. Taff Hughes), Clive Morton (Sergeant Brooks), Frederick Piper (Alf Lewis), Dora Bryan (Maisie), Gladys Henson (Mrs Dixon), Tessie O'Shea (herself), William Mervyn ([Chief Inspector Hammond]), Charles Saynor ([P.C. Tovey]), Campbell Singer ([station sergeant]), Gwynne Whitby ([Sergeant Grace Millard]), Anthony Steel ([P.C. Lock]), Sidney Pointer ([Superintendent Harwood]), Michael Golden ([Mike Randall]), Norman Shelley ([Frederick Percival Jordan]), Gene Neighbors ([Queenie]), Betty Ann Davies ([Mrs Lewis]), Glen Buckland ([Larry]), Jennifer Jayne ([June]), Doris Yorke ([cashier at cinema]), Renee Gadd ([woman driver]), Geoffrey Lumsden ([Grant]), Arnold Bell ([solicitor]), Muriel Aked ([Mrs Waterbourne]), Cameron Hall ([the drunk]), Glyn Houston ([barrow boy]), Rowland Douglas ([cinema doorman]), Alma Cogan ([extra])

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