The Blue Lamp is a 1950 British police procedural film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell and Dirk Bogarde as criminal Tom Riley.
Original UK quad poster by James Boswell
The Harrow Road Police Station, with reproduction blue lamp
Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving f
The Blue Lamp
…Lamp is a 1950 British police procedural film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell and Dirk Bogarde as criminal Tom Riley. The title refers to the blue lamps that traditionally hang outside British police stations. The film became the inspiration for…
Women survivors in Bergen-Belsen collecting their bread ration after their liberation, April 1945
A British Army bulldozer pushes bodies into a mass grave at Belsen, 19 April 1945
Bogarde with Jane Birkin, co-star in Daddy Nostalgie at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival