El detective

El detective (1954)

Father Brown

Adaptación del relato de Chesterton "La cruz azul" (incluido en "El candor del Padre Brown"). El padre Brown (Alec Guinness), un sagaz y excéntrico párroco muy aficionado a desentrañar casos detectivescos, pierde una preciada cruz medieval que debía llevar de Londres a Roma. El autor del robo es el conocido ladrón de obras de arte Gustave Flambeau (Peter Finch), un experto en disfraces al que el perspicaz sacerdote intenta atrapar no sólo para recuperar la cruz, sino también para salvar su alma.

Fecha de estreno
1954-06-08
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (32)
Duración
1 h 31 min
Géneros
Comedia, Misterio, Crimen
Director
Robert Hamer

Reparto

Curiosidades

Father Brown is a 1954 British mystery comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness as the title character with Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch and Cecil Parker. Like the American film Father Brown, Detective (1934), it is based loosely on The Blue Cross (1910), the first Father Brown short story by G. K. Chesterton. It was shot at the Riverside Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Hawkesworth. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures in Britain and in the United States, where it was released as The Detective. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.

Production

It is based on G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown character, who had featured in a number of stories between 1911 and 1935.

The movie was the first production from Facet Productions headed by Paul F Moss and Vincent Cox. In May 1953 it was announced Alec Guinness would play the title role and that the stories were being adapted by Moss' wife Thelma Schnee but the screenplay was being prepared by Alec Coppel, Victor Kenning and Schnee.

The eventual screenplay adaptation was based loosely on the Father Brown story, "The Blue Cross." Although credited to Thelma Schnee and director Robert Hamer, it was actually co-written by Schnee and blacklisted screenwriter Maurice Rapf.

Moss died after an operation on 13 June 1954 - his wife had given birth that month to their daughter.

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