Thursday, 4 September 2025

Father Brown / The Detective (1954 Robert Hamer & co-scr)

Adapted from G.K. Chesterson, with Thelma Schnee. I had forgotten it was  Hamer. And Georges Auric. I would in fact watch any film that had either name in its credits. The DP is Harry Waxman, who also shot Hamer's The Long Memory.

Thief Peter Finch finally realises there's no pleasure in stealing rare works of art if only he can see them - so minister Alec Guinness wins in the end (let's say, with the help of Joan Greenwood).




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