The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

1950

When a beloved London policeman is shot dead by a young criminal, the force launches a determined manhunt through the city's underworld. A landmark British crime drama that helped establish a template for the police procedural genre, starring Jack Warner.

Director

  • Basil Dearden

Cast

  • Jack Warner
  • Jimmy Hanley
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Robert Flemyng
  • Bernard Lee
  • Peggy Evans
  • Patric Doonan
  • Dora Bryan

Filming Locations

  • Hendon

    The exterior of the Police Station - together with its Blue Lamp - was filmed at Brent Street.

  • Maida Vale

    The cinema which Jack Warner was shot was a now demolished cinema in Edgware road called The Metropoliton Theatre which now has the flyover going right through where the cinema used to be.