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1954 British film by Robert Hamer

"The Detective (1954 film)" redirects here. For the Argentine film, see Detective (1954 film).

Father Brown is a 1954 British mysterycomedy 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.

Father brown dvd alec guinness biography

It was shot at the Riverside Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art directorJohn Hawkesworth. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures in both Britain and the United States where it was released as The Detective.^[2] It was screened at the 1954Venice Film Festival.

Plot

The police raid a premises at night and find a priest at an open safe: he explains he is replacing the money for a parishioner. He is arrested and put in the cells but released when the bishop