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The Blue Lamp

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The Blue Lamp	label	The Blue Lamp
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The Blue Lamp	comment	The Blue Lamp (1950) is a famous British Police Procedural film that topped the total UK box office charts in its year of release and spawned the long-running TV series Dixon of Dock Green. In a celebrated example of Spared by the Adaptation, the character George Dixon, played by Jack Warner, was the protagonist of the TV series despite being murdered in the film.The film is a rare example, and one of the best-remembered, of a serious, dramatic work by Ealing Studios. In an atmospheric setting of post-war West London, with rationing still in force and the city scarred by bomb sites, it tells the parallel stories of two young men, New Meat police constable Andy Mitchell (Jimmy Hanley) and Delinquent Tom Riley (Dirk Bogarde), whose criminal career will climax and end in PC Dixon's murder.
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The Blue Lamp / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Blue Lamp / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Although the film looks quite stodgy by modern standards, it has the first-ever use of the word "bastard" in a British film, a strongly-implied prostitute minor character, and the relationship between Tom and Diana is quite disturbing. Also, the depiction of the death of a police officer was considered very shocking at the time.
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The Blue Lamp / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
The Blue Lamp / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway: Diana has run away from home, unhappy about her father's obnoxious behaviour and being expected to look after her rumbustious three younger siblings.
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The Blue Lamp / int_171e14be	type	London Gangster
The Blue Lamp / int_171e14be	comment	London Gangster: Mike Randall is a stereotypical example.
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The Blue Lamp / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Blue Lamp / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Tom is an obvious one, being sadistic, over-confident, amoral, and, by his own boast, excited by danger.
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The Blue Lamp / int_1b4ea159	type	The Alibi
The Blue Lamp / int_1b4ea159	comment	The Alibi: Tom and Spud attempt to set up an alibi for themselves by suggesting that they were at a music hall performance, by ordering a drink at the bar and then returning to have it after the cinema robbery.
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The Blue Lamp / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
The Blue Lamp / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Real-world comedy singer Tessie O'Shea appears and is credited as herself. Tom and Spud attend a performance by her as part of their attempted alibi.
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The Blue Lamp / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Blue Lamp / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Spud is disapproving of Tom's abusive behaviour towards Diana. The gangster Mike Randall organises the greyhound-race bookies to help the cops to capture Tom at the end, although it's implied that this is partly an example of this and partly so that they'll owe him.
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The Blue Lamp / int_32816ab	type	The Great British Copper Capture
The Blue Lamp / int_32816ab	comment	The Great British Copper Capture: Dixon is shot by Tom when he tries to intimidate him into dropping the gun. Later, the eight cops who arrest Tom at the end are still unarmed, he is holding them at gunpoint when he is nearly trampled by a crowd trying to get out of the stadium and then overpowered by Mitchell.
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The Blue Lamp / int_33981caf	type	Street Urchin
The Blue Lamp / int_33981caf	comment	Street Urchin: Queenie is an obnoxious one who finds the gun used in the murder.
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The Blue Lamp / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
The Blue Lamp / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: In the chorus rehearsal scene, a large, fat, balding copper has a very high falsetto/counter-tenor voice.
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The Blue Lamp / int_3fac55ce	type	Old-Fashioned Copper
The Blue Lamp / int_3fac55ce	comment	Old-Fashioned Copper: Dixon is the idealised version.
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The Blue Lamp / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
The Blue Lamp / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: The early scenes of the film have a narrator moralising about crime and the evils of juvenile delinquency.
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The Blue Lamp / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Blue Lamp / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film has a Batman Cold Open depicting a car chase which is irrelevant to the rest of the plot, and climaxes with a nail-biting car chase as Tom and his partner-in-crime Spud try to escape from the police. The film opens with Dixon directing a passer-by to Paddington station and ends with Mitchell doing the same thing.
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The Blue Lamp / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Blue Lamp / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Tom is cruel to his girlfriend Diana, threatening her with a gun for (implied) sadistic sexual kicks, hitting her several times, and trying to strangle her to death at the end of the film because he's afraid that she'll crack and inform on him.
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The Blue Lamp / int_59af9477	type	Delinquents
The Blue Lamp / int_59af9477	comment	Delinquents: Tom and Spud are a couple of unstable young hoods who are disdained by more experienced criminals like Mike Randall.
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The Blue Lamp / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
The Blue Lamp / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: In the first part of the film, there is a poster in the police station canteen about a concert by the station choir. After Dixon (who was a member) is murdered, the poster has a "Cancelled" sticker across it.
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The Blue Lamp / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Blue Lamp / int_5ca80293	comment	The gangster Mike Randall organises the greyhound-race bookies to help the cops to capture Tom at the end, although it's implied that this is partly an example of this and partly so that they'll owe him.
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The Blue Lamp / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Blue Lamp / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: A little girl tells two detectives that her father told her never to talk to the police and that "All coppers are - [she is interrupted]".
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The Blue Lamp / int_85537320	type	Police Procedural
The Blue Lamp / int_85537320	comment	Police Procedural: One of the most iconic British examples.
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The Blue Lamp / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
The Blue Lamp / int_88e7f8b8	comment	The film has a Batman Cold Open depicting a car chase which is irrelevant to the rest of the plot, and climaxes with a nail-biting car chase as Tom and his partner-in-crime Spud try to escape from the police.
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The Blue Lamp / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
The Blue Lamp / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	National Stereotypes: The Welsh cop is voluble and directs the police station chorus.
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The Blue Lamp / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Blue Lamp / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Spud is probably killed (although it isn't explicitly stated) when he crashes the car at the end of the chase.
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The Blue Lamp / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Blue Lamp / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: "Taffy" is knocked out after disturbing Tom and Spud during the jewellery store burglary, and is fine afterwards.
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The Blue Lamp / int_bb8f2da3	type	Cop Killer Manhunt
The Blue Lamp / int_bb8f2da3	comment	Cop Killer Manhunt: The iconic British example, seen as incredibly shocking when it was released in 1950.
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The Blue Lamp / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
The Blue Lamp / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Mitchell is fresh out of training at the beginning of the film.
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The Blue Lamp / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
The Blue Lamp / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Unbuilt Trope example — although the film is often regarded as an example of this, Dixon has decided not to retire when he is killed by Tom.
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The Blue Lamp / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Blue Lamp / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Tom's downfall begins when he over-confidently walks into the police station thinking that he can talk his way out of trouble.
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The Blue Lamp / int_da06866e	type	Old Cop, Young Cop
The Blue Lamp / int_da06866e	comment	Old Cop, Young Cop: Dixon and Mitchell, until Mentor Occupational Hazard happens.
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The Blue Lamp / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
The Blue Lamp / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: The implied reason for Diana to be attracted to Tom, although the "bad" part turns out to be more extreme than she can handle.
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The Blue Lamp / int_e7fe3ece	type	Ominous Walk
The Blue Lamp / int_e7fe3ece	comment	Ominous Walk: By two groups of cops as they trap Tom between them at the end of the film.
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The Blue Lamp / int_fada6ffa	type	Lost in a Crowd
The Blue Lamp / int_fada6ffa	comment	Lost in a Crowd: At the end of the film, Tom tries to lose himself in a crowd at a greyhound race at the White City Stadium.
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