Father Brown (1954 Robert Hamer & co-scr)

Thelma Schnee helped Hamer adapt G.K. Chesterton's novel into a concise and zippy film. Alec Guinness is the detective-vicar after international criminal Peter Finch, who finds Joan Greenwood one good reason for going back to church. Refreshingly, crisply filmed in French locations by Harry Waxman with a typically bumptious score by Georges Auric.

With Bernard Lee, Cecil Parker, Sid James, Ernest Thesiger.