The Blue Lamp (1950)

Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Bernard Lee, Bruce Seton, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Patric Doonan, Peggy Evans, Robert Flemyng

Synopsis:

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.