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