Fall 2023 viewing, part four
Crime, violence, sports, noir, international intrigue and political allegory from Kino Lorber and Arrow […]
Review: The Blue Lamp (1950)
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee,
Jack Warner
Jimmy Hanley
Dirk Bogarde
Robert Flemyng
Bernard Lee
Plot: 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.
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Ealing Studios
I recently got to see the final film produced by Ealing Studios, The Siege of Pinchgut (1959), a tense hostage drama made far from the cozy English countryside and villages the studio is often associated with. Directed and co-written by Harry […]