The Black and Blue Lamp
07/09/1988
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 Information
Kenneth Cranham
as Supt. Cherry
Karl Johnson
as PC "Taffy" Hughes
Sean Chapman
as Tom Riley
John Woodvine
as Supt. Hammond
Ralph Brown
as Insp. Drury
Nick Stringer
as Sgt. Brooks
Ian Brimble
as PC Totley
Peter Lovstrom
as PC Sneed
Barry Woolgar
as Insp. Rogers
Garrick Hagon
as Police Surgeon
Anthony Smee
as Mr Bromley Junior
Paddy Ryan
as Mr Bromley Senior
Jonathan Chater
as Fat Boy
Kathy Burke
as Voiceover
Christopher Driscoll
as Voiceover
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