The Black and Blue Lamp

September. 07,1988      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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Reviews

VeteranLight
1988/09/07

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Afouotos
1988/09/08

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Voxitype
1988/09/09

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Taha Avalos
1988/09/10

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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