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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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Auctioneer: Now, who will open the bidding for me at ten thousand pounds?
Texan Millionaire: Fifty thousand dollars.
Auctioneer: I am bid... seventeen thousand, eight hundred and fifty-seven pounds, two shillings and ten pence. I think it would be easier, sir, if we were to conduct the bidding in pounds sterling.


Father Brown: Perhaps you think a crime horrible because you cannot imagine yourselves committing it. That isn't true, you know. What really horrifies you is the secret and shameful knowledge that you are capable of committing it. We all are, I no less than you. We were not made good people or bad people. We were made people.


Texan Millionaire: [the Texan approaches Father Brown and Lady Warren as they attempt to spot Flambeau among the bidders] Lady Warren? I am Sam Johnson out of San Antonio, Texas. If isn't often we from Texas get a chance to shake a real, live lady by the hand now!
Lady Warren: It isn't often that we in London have the privilege of of meeting a real, live Texan.
Texan Millionaire: You sure talk like a lady. You know, I've come five thousand miles to buy this set of yours. It'll go well down on my ranch.
Lady Warren: Will it really?
Texan Millionaire: Yeah ma'am. I've got myself a real swell games room. Solid gold poker chips, solid gold checkers, and a solid gold ping pong table.
Lady Warren: With solid gold ping pong balls?
Texan Millionaire: No ma'am. They wouldn't bounce. Well, better get set to rope this steer.
[He goes to his seat]
Lady Warren: I feared for a moment he was going to take my hand back to Texas with him, even though it isn't made of gold.
Father Brown: I doubt if even Flambeau could have invented him.


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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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