YMMV / The Blue Lamp

• It Was His Sled: Tom kills Dixon.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Chief Inspector Hammond is played by William Mervyn, who would later be best known for playing the Right Reverend Cuthbert Hever in All Gas and Gaiters.
  • A blonde urchin is played by Melvyn Hayes, who would later be best known for playing Bombardier Beaumont in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The film has an overpowering sense of immediately-post-war London, with children playing on bomb sites, austerity and rationing still somewhat present, slums that seemingly never left the Victorian era, a panic over juvenile delinquents who dress in sharp suits and fedoras, trolleybuses, and police cars with bells rather than sirens.
• Values Dissonance: When the police are called to Diana's father Alf beating his wife, Dixon tells Mitchell not to hurry because it happens regularly and he hasn't killed her yet.

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