Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Drama > Father Brown
Father Brown is a British film of genre Drama directed by Robert Hamer released in USA on 1 november 1954 with Alec Guinness

Father Brown (1954)

Father Brown
If you like this film, let us know!
Released in USA 1 november 1954
Length 1h31
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy thriller,    Crime
Rating66% 3.3443353.3443353.3443353.3443353.344335

Father Brown (The Detective in the United States) is a 1954 British mystery comedy film. Technically, the film is a remake of the 1934 Paramount picture Father Brown, Detective, starring Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas and Gertrude Michael, which was likewise based on "The Blue Cross", a short story by G. K. Chesterton, but confined the action to London.

Synopsis

Father Brown tries to transport an historically important cross to Rome engaging in battles of wits and faith with a thief and pursuing policeman. The thief, named Flambeau (Finch), is a master of disguise and is elusive, as Father Brown pursues him and tries to convince him to abandon his criminal career.

Actors

Alec Guinness

(Father Brown)Joan Greenwood

(Lady Warren)Peter Finch

(Gustave Flambeau)Cecil Parker

(The Bishop)Bernard Lee

(Inspector Valentine)
And :
Sid James
Gérard Oury
Ernest Clark
Aubrey Woods
Trailer of Father Brown

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Father Brown

There are 233 films with the same actors, 12 films with the same director, 90678 with the same cinematographic genres (including 57 with exactly the same 4 genres than Father Brown), 3314 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Father Brown, you will probably like those similar films :
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
, 1h46
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Miles Malleson, Clive Morton
Rating79% 3.9972753.9972753.9972753.9972753.997275
In Edwardian Britain, Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), tenth Duke of Chalfont, writes his memoirs while in prison awaiting his death by hanging the next morning. Most of the film consists of a flashback in which Louis narrates the events leading to his imprisonment.
The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat (1959)
, 1h31
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey, Bette Davis, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Geoffrey Keen
Rating67% 3.397513.397513.397513.397513.39751
John Barratt (Alec Guinness), a lonely, discontented teacher of French at a British university, vacations in France. There, by chance, he meets his double, French nobleman Jacques De Gué (Guinness again). They become acquainted. Barratt becomes drunk and accepts De Gué's invitation to share his hotel room. When he wakes up the next morning, Barratt finds himself alone in the room, with his clothes and passport missing. De Gué's chauffeur Gaston (Geoffrey Keen) shows up to take his master home, and Barratt is unable to convince him that he is not the nobleman. Gaston calls Dr. Aloin (Noel Howlett), who diagnoses the Englishman as suffering from schizophrenia.
To Paris with Love
To Paris with Love (1955)
, 1h18
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Jacques François, Austin Trevor, Élina Labourdette, Claude Romain
Rating55% 2.757052.757052.757052.757052.75705
Un noble britannique décidé d'emmener son fils à Paris, dans le but de lui trouver une femme. Ce dernier va en profiter pour faire la même chose pour son père. Mais tout ne va pas se passer comme prévu.
The Legend of Lylah Clare
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
, 2h10
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy, Milton Selzer, Valentina Cortese
Rating57% 2.854042.854042.854042.854042.85404
Elsa Brinkmann (Novak), is hired by producer Barney Sheean (Borgnine), who wishes to make a film about the life of 1930s movie star Lylah Clare (also Novak).
The Nun's Story
The Nun's Story (1959)
, 2h29
Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Sergio Leone, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Mildred Dunnock, Dean Jagger
Rating74% 3.74613.74613.74613.74613.7461
Gabrielle "Gaby" Van Der Mal (Audrey Hepburn), whose father Hubert (Dean Jagger) is a famous surgeon in Belgium, enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s in the hopes of eventually becoming a missionary nursing sister in the Belgian Congo. After being given the name of Sister Luke and undergoing a postulancy and novitiate which foreshadow her future difficulties with the vow of obedience, she takes her first vows and is sent to a school of tropical medicine.
Witch Hunt
Witch Hunt (1994)
, 1h40
Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films based on works by H. P. Lovecraft, Giant monster films, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian, Debi Mazar, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Julian Sands
Rating55% 2.751022.751022.751022.751022.75102
Hopper stars as 1950s hardboiled private detective H. Phillip Lovecraft, in a fictional universe where magic is real, monsters and mythical beasts stalk the back alleys, zombies are used as cheap labor, and everyone—except Lovecraft—uses magic every day. Yet, cars, telephones and other modern technology also exist in this world.
Adam's Apples
Adam's Apples (2005)
, 1h30
Directed by Anders-Thomas Jensen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about disabilities
Actors Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Paprika Steen, Nicolas Bro, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Ranthe
Rating76% 3.8484953.8484953.8484953.8484953.848495
Neo-Nazi gang leader Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), is granted parole from prison by participating in a rehabilitation program, where he joins the aggressive Saudi gas station robber Khalid (Ali Kazim) and the kleptomanic rapist Gunnar (Nicolas Bro). The community is headed by the priest Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen), who believes firmly and blindly in the goodness of man, and is seemingly oblivious to the ongoing misconduct and aggression of his charges.
The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man (2006)
, 1h42
Directed by Neil LaBute
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker
Rating38% 1.9047051.9047051.9047051.9047051.904705
Policeman Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) receives news from his ex-fiancée, Willow Woodward (Kate Beahan), that their daughter, Rowan (Erika Shaye Gair), is missing. He travels to the Western United States and takes a ship cruise to a coastal area where he gets a pilot (Matthew Walker) to take him to an island off the coast of Washington State where a group of neo-pagans live.