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Father Brown is a 1954 British mystery comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness as the title character with Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch and Cecil Parker. Like the American film Father Brown, Detective (1934), it is based loosely on The Blue Cross (1910), the first Father Brown short story by G. K. Chesterton .
The Detective: Directed by Robert Hamer. With Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker. Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective. He is featured in 53 short stories by English author G. K. Chesterton, published between 1910 and 1936. [1] Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.
When amateur detective Father Brown (Alec Guinness) is put in charge of shipping an extremely valuable religious artifact -- a crucifix -- from London to Rome, a master thief and master of ...
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Father Brown: Created by Rachel Flowerday, Tahsin Guner. With Mark Williams, John Burton, Sorcha Cusack, Jack Deam. In the early 1950s, Father Brown, a Roman Catholic priest based in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford, uses his distinctive skills to solve various crimes.
Reasonably settling on the early 1950s as a compromise between Chesterton’s time and our own, the BBC series finds Father Brown engaged in parish work in a sleepy Cotswolds village with a regular cast of quirky characters, giving the series a “Miss Marple” or “Midsomer Murders” vibe.
Mar 19, 2019 · Father Brown (Alec Guinness), who has taken it upon himself to transport a valuable old cross to Rome to prevent its' theft, boards the London train, casually meeting a handsome bearded priest (Peter Finch), early in The Detective, 1954, from a G.K. Chesterton story.
G. K. Chesterton's classic clergyman-detective is brilliantly brought to life in this charming crime drama. A village scandal leads to the murder of the Squire. No human hand, it seems, could have been responsible, but Father Brown finds the answer in a church tower.
Father Brown (Alec Guiness) loses his church's historic cross to master criminal Flambeau (Peter Finch) and sets about trying to get it back, to save not only his own job but Flambeau's immortal soul.
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul. Robert Hamer. Director, Screenplay. Thelma Schnee.
