BIBFRAME Work

Title

Father Brown

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

The detective

Type

• Monograph
• Moving Image

Contribution

• Greenwood, Joan, 1921-1987 (cast)
• Finch, Peter, 1916-1977 (cast)
• Hamer, Robert, 1911-1963 (direction)
• Schnee, Thelma (writing)
• Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000 (cast)

Subject

• Crime--Drama (LCSH)
• Thieves--Drama (LCSH)
• Brown, Father (Fictitious character)--Drama. (LCSH)
• Priests--Drama (LCSH)
• Detectives--Drama (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Feature films (LCGFT)
• Motion pictures (LCGFT)
• Detective and mystery films (LCGFT)
• Fiction films (LCGFT)
• Comedy films (LCGFT)

Language

• eng

Classification

• LCC: FDB 1340-1341 (viewing print) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)
• LCC: FGA 2763-2772 (viewing print) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• two-dimensional moving image

Note

• Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, Sidney James, Gerard Oury, Ernest Thesiger, Cecil Parker.
• Adapted by Thelma Schnee ; director of photography, Harry Waxman ; editor, Gordon Hales ; music score composed by Georges Auric.

Summary

Priest-detective Father Brown travels to Rome to protect a priceless cross, on its way to a Congress; but he is tricked by Flambeau, a master of disguise, who steals the cross. Father Brown gets wealthy Lady Warren to put up a valuable chess set as bait for the crook, but Flambeau again gets away with it. The Father tracks Flambeau to a chateau in Burgundy and recovers the cross, and more important, Flambeau's immortal soul.

Authorized Access Point

Father Brown

Moving image technique

• live action

Duration

PT1H34M

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:46:01.697088+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 12562623

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc