Alec Guinness
Father Brown
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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.
- (1.7K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Robert Hamer
- 1954-11-01
Feb 6, 2022 · Detec. Alec Guiness) Production: Facet Prods (A Facet Prod.) Distributors: Columbia Pictures Corp. (1954 UK theatrical), Columbia Pictures (1954 USA theatrical re-titled), WEB: ''Goodoldmoovies''. PLOT: Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise.
- 91 min
- 8.9K
- DEF GP
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 .
Mar 19, 2019 · Detective, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) A Forest Of Priests Summoned before the bishop (Cecil Parker) and policeman Wilkins (John Horsley), amateur sleuth Father Brown (Alec Guinness) is told of the plan to protect a valuable cross from theft, in The Detective 1954, based on the first of G.K. Chesterton's "Father Brown" stories.
- Robert Hamer
- Alec Guinness
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...
- (13)
- Alec Guinness
- Robert Hamer
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
Fr. Brown even helped convert Alec Guinness, who played the fictional priest-sleuth in the 1954 British film Father Brown (known in America as The Detective) years before the actor’s own conversion to Catholicism. A small event while Guinness was shooting on location in a French village, costumed in a cassock and a clerical hat, helped him to ...
Mar 5, 2024 · Classic Film Review: Alec Guinness is “Father Brown,” aka “The Detective” priest. Alec Guinness brings a deft twinkle to G.K. Chesterton’ s venerable saintly sleuth “Father Brown” in his only big screen outing as the Catholic crime solver, titled “The Detective” when it showed in the United States.
