Alec Guinness plays Father Brown, a priest out to retrieve a stolen cross taken by a thief, played by Peter Finch, in this 1954 crime caper. Similar in tone to the pair of Miss Marple adventures I recently watched, this priest, who has no training apparently in the investigative arts, really gets his blood boiling when the game is afoot (sorry Sherlock!) but being a man of God, there is an added element of redemption which gets as much footing as the object being pursued which I guess is fine but as a trope in this genre it really begs the question 'why bother?.' Also starring future James Bond boss M, Bernard Lee, as a British constable on the good father's heels.
Review of The Detective
