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...movie are present in this one, but he is on the dishing-out end for a change. Although the bookie is naturally foiled or double-crossed at every turn, he has a good time sapping people behind the car and grilling a witness with the base of a modernistic lamp...
...Lady with the Lamp" became an international heroine. Queen Victoria had a special brooch struck for her, remarked: "I wish we had her at the War Office...
...Blue Lamp (Ealing Studios; Eagle Lion Classics), a touted import, is a bland, semi-documentary melodrama in praise of the London police. The picture's excitement runs thin compared with the better Hollywood cops & robbers product, and its humor is as heavy as plum pudding, but U.S. moviegoers may be diverted by its foreign flavor...
Even the underworld, or at least its old guard, gets sympathetic treatment from The Blue Lamp. The plot is pegged on the London police's tradition of doing their duty without firearms. The film suggests that socially adjusted lawbreakers respect this tradition, but one amateurish criminal upstart (Dirk Bogarde) loses his head and plugs the picture's most likable bobby (Jack Warner). The courage of the unarmed police closing in on the gun-toting killer invites both admiration and suspense. What should most impress U.S. fans, however, is the reaction of London gangland's staunch conservatives: well...
...publicity release says, "The Blue Lamp' is probably the only picture for which a script was written in the front seat of a police prowl car." Maybe that's why the author forgot that authentic photography alone can't make a good movie...