Father Brown, Detective

1934Movie⏱️ 1h 8mUnrated

Mystery

⭐ 6

IMDB Rating

116 votes

Father Brown is trying to stop a known theft taking 10 diamonds and showing he is wrong in the eyes of god.

Director

Edward Sedgwick

Writers

G.K. Chesterton, Henry Myers, C. Gardner Sullivan

Stars

Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, Gertrude Michael

Release Date

December 14, 1934

Language

English

Country

United States

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Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Walter Connolly

as Father Brown

Paul Lukas

as Flambeau

Gertrude Michael

as Evelyn Fischer

👤

Robert Loraine

as Inspector Valentine

Halliwell Hobbes

as Sir Leopold Fischer

Una O'Connor

as Mrs. Boggs

E.E. Clive

as Sergeant Dawes

Donald Gray

as Don

Robert Adair

as Policeman

Alyce Ardell

as Maid

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Color

Black and White

Filming Location

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production

Paramount Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

wrongpriestbased on novel

🎯 Categories

Mystery

⭐ Featured Review

G*d's Certainty

by boblipton • 2024-05-27

6/10

"Walter Connolly is Father Brown in this version of his duel with Flambeau, played by Paul Lukas. Lukas wants the diamond-encrusted crucifix that Connolly always carries. He wants to give the diamonds to Gertrude Michael, whom he loves. The police, in the persons of Scotland Yard Inspector Robert Loraine, and his sergeant, E. E. Clive, want him for his past crimes. And Connolly wants him for G*d. Because the movie is not so much about Connolly, but about the redemption of Lukas. It's not the movie. You'd expect a comedy expert like Eddie Sedgwick to direct, but it's the most acc..."

💡 Did You Know?

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecasts took place on the weekly Monday Night Late Late Show Movie Museum presentations in New York City 17 August 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2) and in Philadelphia 24 August 1959 on WCAU (Channel 10).