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Father Brown (1954)

Director(s) Robert Hamer
Producer(s)

No producer listed for this movie
Top Genres Comedy, Crime, Drama
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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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Father Brown Quotes:

Father Brown: Excuse me. Do you speak English?
Painter: Sure.
Father Brown: Have you noticed the river has started flowing backwards?
Painter: If you hadn't told me I never would have noticed.
Father Brown: And that the sun is moving from west to east. And that those trees, instead of growing, are shrinking down into the ground. All of which suggests to me that the course of history has started to unwind, and that we are approaching the end of the world.
Painter: In that case, I'd better be going. Thanks for the tip.
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.
Lady Warren: What progress have you made?
Father Brown: Looking for a black cat in a coal hole during an eclipse of the sun would be a child's task compared with mine.
Lady Warren: You put me in mind of the child's poem: "As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish that he would go away."
Father Brown: I wish that he would come to stay.
Parkinson: Father! You in trouble, Father?
Father Brown: I'm disappointed in you, Bert.
Parkinson: I'm sorry, Father, it was just...
Father Brown: Firstly, because you did wrong. Secondly, because you did wrong in the wrong way. Frankly, you are an incompetent thief.
Parkinson: Well, I wouldn't go that far.
Father Brown: I would. You are clearly incapable of earning a dishonest living. Why not experiment with an honest one?
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.
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Father Brown Fact
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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