He works in mysterious ways.

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 ...

The Blue Lamp (1950) is a well-constructed and often exciting police drama about the members of a London police station and of two officers in particular: George Dixon (Jack Warner), a respected ...

There are so many existing associations with The Blue Lamp that it is almost impossible to watch it with a fresh eye: George Dixon's life and death in film, then rebirth in the television hit Dixon of ...

Actress trained at Rank’s 'charm school’ who made her mark as the gangster’s moll in The Blue Lamp Peggy Evans with Dirk Bogarde in The Blue Lamp, 1950 Credit: Photo: Kobal Collection Peggy Evans, who ...

(1950) Gritty noir thriller from Ealing Studios. A rookie PC hunts a vicious killer across blitz-battered London. With Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde and Jack Warner as PC George Dixon.

Actress trained at Rank’s 'charm school’ who made her mark as the gangster’s moll in The Blue Lamp Peggy Evans with Dirk Bogarde in The Blue Lamp, 1950 Credit: Photo: Kobal Collection Peggy Evans, who ...