The Black and Blue Lamp (1988)

0h 59m · 7 Sep 1988

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Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.

Movie ID	17504
Genre	Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
Director	Guy Slater
Main cast	Kenneth Cranham, Karl Johnson, Sean Chapman, John Woodvine, Ralph Brown, Nick Stringer, Ian Brimble, Peter Lovstrom
Release date	7 September 1988
Release year	1988
Language	English
Duration	59 min (0h 59m)
Rating	–
Production house	BBC