--- title: 'Father Brown (1954)' type: 'film' director: 'Robert Hamer' released: '1954-06-08' runtime_minutes: 91 genres: - 'Crime' - 'Mystery' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/father-brown-1954' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046970/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Father Brown (1954) 1954 · 91 min · Crime, Mystery · United Kingdom ## Synopsis 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. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures in both Britain and the United States where it was released as The Detective. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. ## Credits - **Director:** [Robert Hamer](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-hamer) - **Screenplay:** [Maurice Rapf](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-rapf) - **Original Music Composer:** [Georges Auric](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-auric) - **Director of Photography:** [Harry Waxman](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-waxman) - **Editor:** [Gordon Hales](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-hales) ## Cast - [Peter Finch](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-finch) - [Bernard Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-lee) - [Cecil Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-parker) - [Alec Guinness](https://cinepixo.com/people/alec-guinness) - [Gérard Oury](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-oury) - [John Horsley](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-horsley) - [Joan Greenwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-greenwood) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/father-brown-1954 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1154209); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.