The Black Sheep (1960)
Das schwarze Schaf
Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest playing detective.
- Date of release
- 1960-12-19
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (35)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Director
- Helmut Ashley
- Collection
- Pater Brown Collection
Casting
- Heinz Rühmann — Pater Brown
- Karl Schönböck — Theaterdirektor Scarletti
- Maria Sebaldt — Gloria Scarletti
- Siegfried Lowitz — Flambeau
- Lina Carstens — Mrs. Smith
- Fritz Rasp — Lord Kingsley
- Hans Leibelt — James Conelly
- Johannes Buzalski — Bühnenarbeiter
- Herbert Tiede — Inspector Graven
- Friedrich Domin — Bischof
- Gernot Duda — Barnes
- Rosel Schäfer — Mrs. Flambeau
Interesting facts
The Black Sheep is a 1960 German krimi mystery film directed by Helmut Ashley and starring Heinz Rühmann, Karl Schönböck and Maria Sebaldt. It is loosely based on the Father Brown stories by G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown manages to demonstrate the innocence of a man accused of murder by finding the real culprit. Rühmann reprised the role in He Can't Stop Doing It in 1962.
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