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The blue lamp
Title
The blue lamp / director, Basil Dearden ; screenplay, T.E.B. Clarke.
Edition
Special edition.
Publication
[New York] : Kino Lorber Corp., [2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from sell sheet.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.
Special features: new audio commentary ; location featurette with film historian, Richard Dacre ; BBC Radio 3 the essay: British cinema of the 40s.
English dialogue; English subtitles.
Summary
This classic film noir concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Aveteran cop is murdered by small-time delinquents Tom Riley and Spud. Rookie cop Andy Mitchell, who looked up to the veteran policeman as a father figure, embarks on a perilous search to bring his mentor's killers to justice. Shot in a pioneering semi-documentary style by Gordon Dines (Pool ofLondon), the film focuses on ordinary heroes and a new breed of young criminal, hardened by the war years, whose recklessness and violence contrasts with the discipline of the older criminal fraternity.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2021
Series
KL studio classics
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee, Peggy Lee.
System details note
DVD.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
K25335 KL Studio Classics
Subjects
Genre/Form
Crime films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Film noir.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Film noir.
Crime films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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