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Father Brown (1954) was a Comedy - Crime Film directed by Robert Hamer .

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Father Brown aka The Detective ( 1954 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 15, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

When Father Brown's beloved cross of St. Augustus is stolen en route to Rome, he is determined to capture the thief and restore not only the cross, but a lost soul as well. The daring thefts of Flambeau, a master of disguise, are known throughout all of England. Here is a lost sheep just waiting to ... Read full article


Father Brown aka The Detective ( 1954 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 15, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

When Father Brown's beloved cross of St. Augustus is stolen en route to Rome, he is determined to capture the thief and restore not only the cross, but a lost soul as well. The daring thefts of Flambeau, a master of disguise, are known throughout all of England. Here is a lost sheep just waiting to ... Read full article


Father Brown aka The Detective ( 1954 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 15, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

When Father Brown's beloved cross of St. Augustus is stolen en route to Rome, he is determined to capture the thief and restore not only the cross, but a lost soul as well. The daring thefts of Flambeau, a master of disguise, are known throughout all of England. Here is a lost sheep just waiting to ... Read full article


Father Brown aka The Detective ( 1954 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 15, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

When Father Brown's beloved cross of St. Augustus is stolen en route to Rome, he is determined to capture the thief and restore not only the cross, but a lost soul as well. The daring thefts of Flambeau, a master of disguise, are known throughout all of England. Here is a lost sheep just waiting to ... Read full article


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Inspector Valentine: You'd've made things much easier for us both if you'd told us what you know of Flambeau.
Father Brown: I cannot tell you what I do not know. All I know is that he walks upon two legs and his head grows above his shoulders.


Inspector Valentine: [the inspector has just phoned in an all-points bulletin for a stolen milk truck] Your accomplices haven't got a chance. They'll be intercepted within half an hour.
Lady Warren: Half an hour? Then you've time for a glass of sherry.
Inspector Valentine: No thank you.
Lady Warren: Or perhaps a glass of milk? The milkman seems to have left rather a lot today.


Father Brown: Appalling.
Flambeau: An odd word to apply to the finest private collection in the world.
Father Brown: What is appalling is that it is private.
Flambeau: You are the first person to have the privilege of seeing it. Look at my El Greco.
Father Brown: Yours?
Flambeau: Mine.
Father Brown: This, I believe, is yours.
[He hands Flambeau his cigarette case]
Flambeau: Oh. So that's how you traced me. Thank you. I wondered where I'd lost it.
Father Brown: You didn't lose it. I stole it.
Flambeau: We have something in common then.
Father Brown: All men do.


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Alec Guinness was spotted in costume when walking home through the French countryside. A young boy ran up to him, yelling "Mon père! Mon père!" ("My father! My father!") Guinness did not speak French, so he could not correct the young boy's mistake, but was touched that the young boy apparently immediately bonded to him on the assumption that he was a priest. Soon after the film was released, Guinness converted to Catholicism.
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