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Plot

G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric Father Brown was first brought to the screen in 1934, in the corpulent form of Walter Connolly. The good father spends most of the film trying to retrieve a valuable diamond cross from elusive thief Flambeau (Paul Lukas). Father Brown is convinced that Flambeau is eminently redeemable, but the double-crossing thief hardly proves to be a prime candidate for salvation. Amazingly, Father Brown's faith in Flambeau's essential decency proves well-founded, but it's certainly touch-and-go for a while. Long unavailable for reappraisal, 1934's Father Brown, Detective has been eclipsed by the popularity of the 1954 Alec Guinness remake.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Comedy,Crime and Mystery,Drama,Thriller
Run Time:
67min.
Distributor(s):
Paramount
Director(s):
Edward Sedgwick
Starring:
Walter Connolly , Paul Lukas , Gertrude Michael , Robert Loraine , Halliwell Hobbes
Themes:
Amateur Sleuths,Jewel Theft,Members of the Clergy
Keywords:
church,detective,gambling,invasion,investigation,jewel-robbery,opal,police,priest,reform [improve],robbery,suspect