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In 1934 a film version of Chesterton's priest based on "The Blue Cross"' appeared with the title ''Father Brown, Detective'', with Walter Connelly in the title rôle. In 1954 ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BNonixFao Father Brown]]'' (U.S. title, ''The Detective'') appeared with Creator/AlecGuinness as the eponymous priest. Heinz Rühmann played Father Brown in two German adaptations of Chesterton's stories, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqXBj4S2kNE Das schwarze Schaf]]'' ("The Black Sheep") (1960) and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8isZQjGO8 Er kann's nicht lassen]]'' ("He Can't Stop Doing It") (1962). (The score to these, by Martin Böttcher, became very popular in Germany.) In 1970 an Italian television series entitled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCVk_MNMe8 I racconti di padre Brown]]'' ("The Tales of Father Brown") starred the well-known Italian comedian Renato Rascel. In 1974, Kenneth More starred in a 13-episode ''Father Brown'' TV series, each episode dramatised from one of Chesterton's short stories, and generally considered the most faithful adaptation. In 1979, the TV move ''Sanctuary of Fear'' featured an American Father Brown (Barnard Hughes) sleuthing in contemporary New York City.. but the protagonist's only resemblances to Chesterton's character are his name and occupation. Creator/AndrewSachs (of ''Series/FawltyTowers'' fame) played the character on BBC Radio from 1984 to 1986. A German television series, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKROsrsjXI Pfarrer Braun]]'' ("Pastor Brown"), loosely based on the Chesterton character, is in production since 2003; its title theme by Martin Böttcher is a ShoutOut to the one of the Heinz Rühmann films. A [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q0q11 2013 TV series]] produced by [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC]] cast Creator/MarkWilliams of ''Series/TheFastShow'' and ''Film/HarryPotter'' fame in the title role. The trope page for that show can be found [[Series/FatherBrown here]].
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In 1934 a film version of Chesterton's priest based on "The Blue Cross"' appeared with the title ''Father Brown, Detective'', with Walter Connelly in the title rôle. In 1954 ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BNonixFao Father Brown]]'' (U.S. title, ''The Detective'') appeared with Creator/AlecGuinness as the eponymous priest. Heinz Rühmann played Father Brown in two German adaptations of Chesterton's stories, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqXBj4S2kNE Das schwarze Schaf]]'' ("The Black Sheep") (1960) and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8isZQjGO8 Er kann's nicht lassen]]'' ("He Can't Stop Doing It") (1962). (The score to these, by Martin Böttcher, became very popular in Germany.) In 1970 an Italian television series entitled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCVk_MNMe8 I racconti di padre Brown]]'' ("The Tales of Father Brown") starred the well-known Italian comedian Renato Rascel. In 1974, Kenneth More starred in a 13-episode ''Father Brown'' TV series, each episode dramatised from one of Chesterton's short stories, and generally considered the most faithful adaptation. In 1979, the TV move ''Sanctuary of Fear'' featured an American Father Brown (Barnard Hughes) sleuthing in contemporary New York City.. but the protagonist's only resemblances to Chesterton's character are his name and occupation. Creator/AndrewSachs (of ''Series/FawltyTowers'' fame) played the character on BBC Radio from 1984 to 1986. A German television series, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKROsrsjXI Pfarrer Braun]]'' ("Pastor Brown"), loosely based on the Chesterton character, is in production since 2003; was produced from 2003 to 2014; its title theme by Martin Böttcher is a ShoutOut to the one of the Heinz Rühmann films. A [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q0q11 2013 TV series]] produced by [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC]] cast Creator/MarkWilliams of ''Series/TheFastShow'' and ''Film/HarryPotter'' fame in the title role. The trope page for that show can be found [[Series/FatherBrown here]].
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** "The Blue Cross" introduces Valentin, the head of the French police who is TheAce, and Flambeau, an arch-criminal, with Father Brown coming in, and being revealed as the actual hero, toward the end. Of course, nowadays, since the story is found in anthologies titled ''The Innocence of Father Brown'' and ''The Father Brown Omnibus'', and not ''The Valentin Omnibus'', the actual protagonist's identity is a LateArrivalSpoiler.
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** "The Blue Cross" introduces Valentin, the head of the French police who is TheAce, and Flambeau, an arch-criminal, with Father Brown only coming in, in and being revealed as the actual hero, hero toward the end. Of course, nowadays, since the story is found in anthologies titled ''The Innocence of Father Brown'' and ''The Father Brown Omnibus'', and not ''The Valentin Omnibus'', the actual protagonist's identity is a LateArrivalSpoiler.
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* EasilyForgiven: Discussed in "The Chief Mourner of Marne". A penitent murderer's close associates wished to forgive him for his crime, but they only knew half the story of his crime; once the full story was disclosed they were more than willing to abandon him and let him suffer. Father Brown himself notes that sin is something that damages the sinner too, and that the more indefensible the sin, the more forgiveness is needed.
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* EasilyForgiven: Discussed in "The Chief Mourner of Marne". A penitent murderer's close associates wished to forgive him for his crime, but they only knew half the story of his crime; story; once the full story was details of his crime were disclosed they were more than willing to abandon him and let him suffer. Father Brown himself notes that sin is something that damages the sinner too, and that the more indefensible the sin, the more forgiveness is needed.
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*NoAntagonist: A few stories turn out to be this
** The Honour of Israel Gow: The servant removing his masters' head before his burial and apparently defacing hymn books? He was led to believe he'd been left all his master's gold (and nothing else) and was merely removing the gold tooth and gold plates from the hymn books
** The Three Tools of Death: Nearly everyone concerned with the death of Aaron Armstrong is convinced someone else was responsible for his death, but it turns out to be a suicide.
** The Absence of Mr Glass: Blood on a sword? A strange high pitched voice? Broken glass? A man tied and gagged? No sinister goings on here; just a man training to be a stage magician with skills in sword swallowing, juggling and ventriloquism.
** The Honour of Israel Gow: The servant removing his masters' head before his burial and apparently defacing hymn books? He was led to believe he'd been left all his master's gold (and nothing else) and was merely removing the gold tooth and gold plates from the hymn books
** The Three Tools of Death: Nearly everyone concerned with the death of Aaron Armstrong is convinced someone else was responsible for his death, but it turns out to be a suicide.
** The Absence of Mr Glass: Blood on a sword? A strange high pitched voice? Broken glass? A man tied and gagged? No sinister goings on here; just a man training to be a stage magician with skills in sword swallowing, juggling and ventriloquism.
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* OrgyOfEvidence: In The Three Tools of Death, Patrick Royce the secretary of campaigner for abstinence Sir Aaron Armstrong confesses to his murder after Armstrong disallowed the marriage of his daughter to him. Examing the crime scene though, Father Brown wonders why there are so many potential murder weapons there (a gun, a knife and a rope). [[Spoiler: It turns out that Armstrong was trying to commit suicide and had collected enough weapons to do so. Patrick Royce had tried to prevent his suicide by tying him up but his daughter had misunderstood and cut the ropes allowing him to jump through the window]]
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** And a keen insight into his own sinful nature. “You think a crime horrible because you imagine you could,never commit it. I think a crime horrible because I know I could commit it.”
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** And a keen insight into his own sinful nature. “You think a crime horrible because you imagine you could,never could never commit it. I think a crime horrible because I know I could commit it.””
* AmbiguousSituation: While Father Brown quickly deduces the true cause of the supposed curse in "The Salad of Colonel Cray", he never learns -- nor does he think it matters much -- whether Cray's enemy set up the scene in which he was cursed, or simply decided to take advantage of it.
* AmbiguousSituation: While Father Brown quickly deduces the true cause of the supposed curse in "The Salad of Colonel Cray", he never learns -- nor does he think it matters much -- whether Cray's enemy set up the scene in which he was cursed, or simply decided to take advantage of it.
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* CainandAbel: Used in "The Hammer of God" and "The Sins of Prince Seradine", and a sister version in "The Eye of Apollo". [[spoiler: In the first two cases it's the overly antagonistic sibling that's killed by the quieter but more vindictive sibling; the third case downplays it as while the quiet sister is involved, all she did was to trick the victim out of writing a will that would've left everything to the murderer.]]
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* EvilisPetty: Father Brown considers that most criminals and villains apply to this, as all their desires are on their own gain (robberies, vendettas).
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* ExcellentJudgeofCharacter: Father Brown has a deep experience and understanding of people, and is able to use this to acquire accurate character profiles and their actions.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Happens twice in "The Arrow of Heaven", after Merton is murdered with an arrow, while in an upper room of his fortified mansion. Father Brown interviews Crake and then Captain Wain. Both of them are happy to talk about their area of expertise, then react harshly as they realize partway through that they're actually describing how they could have committed the murder.[[note]]Wain, an experienced pilot, explains how easy it would be to fly a plane close enough for an archer to hit Merton. And Crake, who had bragged of learning to fight like the American Indians, describes how easy it would have been for an Indian bravo to fire from the ground outside, through the open upper-floor window, and still hit Merton.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Father Brown takes this reaction as strong evidence of both men's innocence. The real murderer would have been far more paranoid about incriminating himself in a conversation, and would be expected to either talk about any subject adjacent to the murder as little as possible, or to feign innocence and overcorrect by talking about those subjects for too long.]]
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Happens twice in "The Arrow of Heaven", after Merton is murdered with an arrow, while in an upper room of his fortified mansion. Father Brown interviews Crake and then Captain Wain. Both of them are happy to talk about their area of expertise, then react harshly as they realize partway through that they're actually describing how they could have committed the murder.[[note]]Wain, an experienced pilot, explains how easy it would be to fly a plane close enough for an archer to hit Merton. And Crake, who had bragged of learning to fight like the American Indians, describes how easy it would have been for an Indian bravo to fire from the ground outside, through the open upper-floor window, and still hit Merton.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Father Brown takes this reaction as strong evidence of both men's innocence. The real murderer would have been far more paranoid about incriminating himself in a conversation, and would be expected to either talk about any subject adjacent to the murder as little as possible, or to feign innocence and overcorrect by talking about those subjects for too long.]]
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** In fact, in "The Resurrection of Father Brown", this tendency results in Father Brown unwittingly foiling the villain's scheme before he's even figured out what the scheme is. [[spoiler:The anti-clerical journalist Snaith arranges for a fake miracle--the apparent death and resurrection of Father Brown--to occur, so that he can later expose the apparent miracle as a sham and discredit Father Brown. However, this plan hinges on Father Brown himself believing these events miraculous, or at least playing along with everyone else who calls it a miracle. Instead, upon waking up, Father Brown immediately tries to convince all the witnesses that nothing miraculous happened--and failing that, he sends a telegram to the bishop, advising him to ignore all reports of a miracle from this town.]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: The title character in "The Honour of Israel Gow" -- he is described within the story by other characters as of limited intellect, but what we see of him suggests that his intelligence is pretty normal, and his intense, if eccentric, sense of honesty, literal-mindedness, and taciturnity suggest to a modern reader that he's autistic in some way.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Done in "The Man in the Passage". [[spoiler: An actress keeping her marriage secret is a common practice, but she attracted so many unknowing suitors for her hand in marriage that her husband finally cracked and killed her in a fit of jealousy.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Done in "The Man in the Passage". [[spoiler: An actress keeping her marriage secret is a common practice, but she attracted so many unknowing suitors for her hand in marriage that her husband finally cracked and killed her in a fit of jealousy. Made worse by the fact that the victim had sent for Father Brown precisely to help with their marital problems; the priest laments that he was barely too late to save her life.]]
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* DiseaseByAnyOtherName: The title character in "The Honour of Israel Gow" -- he is described within the story by other characters as of limited intellect, but what we see of him suggests that his intelligence is pretty normal, and his intense, if eccentric, sense of honesty, literal-mindedness, and taciturnity suggest to a modern reader that he's autistic in some way.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Defied in ''The Flying Stars''; Father Brown gives a lengthy lecture to [[GentlemanThief Flambeau]] after he leaves an innocent patsy to take the fall for his latest theft, insisting that it's only a matter of time before the latter descends into worse and worse villainy. Father Brown's lurid description of "honest" criminals who eventually became deadbeats and madmen apparently scares Flambeau straight, as thereafter he has completely given up his criminal ways.
** [[AnAesop A general theme]] of the stories is that the true distinction between criminals is not the nature of their crime, but rather their willingness to repent. Moveover, the assumption that some crimes are better than others quickly leads to hypocrisy, or worse, SlowlySlippingIntoEvil.
** Defied in ''The Flying Stars''; Father Brown gives a lengthy lecture to [[GentlemanThief Flambeau]] after he leaves an innocent patsy to take the fall for his latest theft, insisting that it's only a matter of time before the latter descends into worse and worse villainy. Father Brown's lurid description of "honest" criminals who eventually became deadbeats and madmen apparently scares Flambeau straight, as thereafter he has completely given up his criminal ways.
** [[AnAesop A general theme]] of the stories is that the true distinction between criminals is not the nature of their crime, but rather their willingness to repent. Moveover, the assumption that some crimes are better than others quickly leads to hypocrisy, or worse, SlowlySlippingIntoEvil.
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* SuddenNameChange: Father Brown himself. "The Eye of Apollo" gives his name as "the Reverend J. Brown", whilst "The Sign of the Broken Sword" refers to him as Paul.
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: In "The Secret Garden", a beheaded body is further desecrated by several strange cuts about the severed neck. As Literature/FatherBrown explains in the end, [[spoiler:"It was done to make you take for granted that the head belonged to the body."]]
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** In "The Secret Garden", a beheaded body is further desecrated by several strange cuts about the severed neck. As Literature/FatherBrown explains in the end, [[spoiler:"It was done to make you take for granted that the head belonged to the body."]]"]]
** In "The Insoluble Problem", Tyrone's accomplices both hang and stab an already-dead body (the man had actually died of old age) as part of a scheme to create a false crime complex and confusing enough to keep Flambeau and Father Brown busy while Tyrone pulls off a jewel theft.
** In "The Secret Garden", a beheaded body is further desecrated by several strange cuts about the severed neck. As Literature/FatherBrown explains in the end, [[spoiler:"It was done to make you take for granted that the head belonged to the body.
** In "The Insoluble Problem", Tyrone's accomplices both hang and stab an already-dead body (the man had actually died of old age) as part of a scheme to create a false crime complex and confusing enough to keep Flambeau and Father Brown busy while Tyrone pulls off a jewel theft.
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* IncriminatingIndifference: Father Brown invokes this on Flambeau in "The Blue Cross", pointing out that a man generally makes a small scene when he notices a discrepancy, like salt instead of sugar in his coffee. If a man keeps quiet despite the discrepancy, he has some reason to try to keep a low profile.
-->"Well, I wasn't sure you were a thief, and it would never do to make a scandal against one of our own clergy. So I just tested you to see if anything would make you show yourself. A man generally makes a small scene if he finds salt in his coffee; if he doesn't, he has some reason for keeping quiet. I changed the salt and sugar, and you kept quiet. A man generally objects if his bill is three times too big. If he pays it, he has some motive for passing unnoticed. I altered your bill, and you paid it."
-->"Well, I wasn't sure you were a thief, and it would never do to make a scandal against one of our own clergy. So I just tested you to see if anything would make you show yourself. A man generally makes a small scene if he finds salt in his coffee; if he doesn't, he has some reason for keeping quiet. I changed the salt and sugar, and you kept quiet. A man generally objects if his bill is three times too big. If he pays it, he has some motive for passing unnoticed. I altered your bill, and you paid it."
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* ! InspiringSermon: In "The Flying Stars", Father Brown delivers a sermon to Flambeau, deconstructing the latter's LovableRogue image of himself and warning him about the inevitable danger of SlowlySlippingIntoEvil. After that sermon, Flambeau (a hardened and very intelligent criminal who had evaded capture for ''years'') makes a HeelFaceTurn and [[DefeatMeansFriendship becomes Father Brown's best friend]].
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: In "The Secret Garden", a beheaded body is further desecrated by several strange cuts about the severed neck. As Literature/FatherBrown explains in the end, [[spoiler:"It was done to make you take for granted that the head belonged to the body."]]
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* CainandAbel: Used in "The Hammer of God" and "The Sins of Prince Seradine", and a sister version in "The Eye of Apollo". [[spoiler: In the first two cases it's the overly antagonistic sibling that's killed by the quieter but more vindictive sibling; the third case had one sister allow herself to be manipulated and murdered and only acted to stop her murderer from collecting her inheritance, which went to her as the next of kin.]]
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* CainandAbel: Used in "The Hammer of God" and "The Sins of Prince Seradine", and a sister version in "The Eye of Apollo". [[spoiler: In the first two cases it's the overly antagonistic sibling that's killed by the quieter but more vindictive sibling; the third case had one downplays it as while the quiet sister allow herself is involved, all she did was to be manipulated and murdered and only acted to stop her murderer from collecting her inheritance, which went to her as trick the next victim out of kin.writing a will that would've left everything to the murderer.]]
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** In "The Honour of Israel Gow", the Father is asked to perform a scan on a odd set of trinkets left behind on the scene and produces six equally plausible but all mutually contradictory stories explaining their presence -- none of which turns out to be correct.
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* SmallNameBigEGo: Father Brown describes the criminal in "The Actor and the Alibi" as this: [[spoiler: she was an ambitious actress who murdered her dull old-fashioned husband so that she could be free of him and seek a better career with a handsome uprising actor.]]
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* SmallNameBigEGo: SmallNameBigEgo: Father Brown describes the criminal in "The Actor and the Alibi" as this: [[spoiler: she was an ambitious actress who murdered her dull old-fashioned husband so that she could be free of him and seek a better career with a handsome uprising actor.]]
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* DuelToTheDeath: Played straight in "The Sins of Prince Seradine" and "The Chief Mourner of Marne".
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* EveryoneHasStandards: At the conclusion of "The Crime of the Communist", Father Brown is scathing about the notion that the man who was framed for the murder might have accidentally revealed the plot by using the poisoned matches that had just been planted on him. Just because he was a Communist who wanted to overthrow Church and State in a bloody revolution, that didn't mean he was so bereft of standards as to start smoking before he'd finished drinking his port!
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* AmbivalentAnglican: In "The Vampire of the Village", one retired village priest seems to be all over the place with regard to his beliefs. Father Brown (a Catholic priest) soon realizes that's because the man isn't actually a priest but an actor playing different stereotypes of priests as they'd appear on stage (TheVicar, the StopHavingFunGuy, the HolierThanThou type, etc.). Father Brown realises that the alleged vicar is an imposter because he shows elements of entirely incompatible factions of the Church of England, such as having an ornate crucifix in his study (Anglo-Catholic) while describing himself as a capital-P Puritan (very Low Church, to the point of possibly being too protestant to be in the C of E at all). Brown comments that "the English know nothing about the Church of England". Not coincidentally, G K Chesterton was a Roman Catholic who had his own reasons for mocking the C of E.
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* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: Well, a trail of weird little pranks and vandalisms left in the wake of two priests in ''The Blue Cross''. The one doing them wants to be followed by the police, the other priest isn't a priest...
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In 1934 a film version of Chesterton's priest based on "The Blue Cross"' appeared with the title ''Father Brown, Detective'', with Walter Connelly in the title rôle. In 1954 ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BNonixFao Father Brown]]'' (U.S. title, ''The Detective'') appeared with Creator/AlecGuinness as the eponymous priest. Heinz Rühmann played Father Brown in two German adaptations of Chesterton's stories, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqXBj4S2kNE Das schwarze Schaf]]'' ("The Black Sheep") (1960) and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8isZQjGO8 Er kann's nicht lassen]]'' ("He Can't Stop Doing It") (1962). (The score to these, by Martin Böttcher, became very popular in Germany.) In 1970 an Italian television series entitled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCVk_MNMe8 I racconti di padre Brown]]'' ("The Tales of Father Brown") starred the well-known Italian comedian Renato Rascel. In 1974, Kenneth More starred in a 13-episode ''Father Brown'' TV series, each episode dramatised from one of Chesterton's short stories, and generally considered the most faithful adaptation. In 1979, the TV move ''Sanctuary of Fear'' featured an American Father Brown (Barnard Hughes) sleuthing in contemporary New York City.. but the protagonist's only resemblances to Chesterton's character are his name and occupation. Andrew Sachs (of ''Series/FawltyTowers'' fame) played the character on BBC Radio from 1984 to 1986. A German television series, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKROsrsjXI Pfarrer Braun]]'' ("Pastor Brown"), loosely based on the Chesterton character, is in production since 2003; its title theme by Martin Böttcher is a ShoutOut to the one of the Heinz Rühmann films. A [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q0q11 2013 TV series]] produced by [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC]] cast Creator/MarkWilliams of ''Series/TheFastShow'' and ''Film/HarryPotter'' fame in the title role. The trope page for that show can be found [[Series/FatherBrown here]].
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In 1934 a film version of Chesterton's priest based on "The Blue Cross"' appeared with the title ''Father Brown, Detective'', with Walter Connelly in the title rôle. In 1954 ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BNonixFao Father Brown]]'' (U.S. title, ''The Detective'') appeared with Creator/AlecGuinness as the eponymous priest. Heinz Rühmann played Father Brown in two German adaptations of Chesterton's stories, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqXBj4S2kNE Das schwarze Schaf]]'' ("The Black Sheep") (1960) and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8isZQjGO8 Er kann's nicht lassen]]'' ("He Can't Stop Doing It") (1962). (The score to these, by Martin Böttcher, became very popular in Germany.) In 1970 an Italian television series entitled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCVk_MNMe8 I racconti di padre Brown]]'' ("The Tales of Father Brown") starred the well-known Italian comedian Renato Rascel. In 1974, Kenneth More starred in a 13-episode ''Father Brown'' TV series, each episode dramatised from one of Chesterton's short stories, and generally considered the most faithful adaptation. In 1979, the TV move ''Sanctuary of Fear'' featured an American Father Brown (Barnard Hughes) sleuthing in contemporary New York City.. but the protagonist's only resemblances to Chesterton's character are his name and occupation. Andrew Sachs Creator/AndrewSachs (of ''Series/FawltyTowers'' fame) played the character on BBC Radio from 1984 to 1986. A German television series, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKROsrsjXI Pfarrer Braun]]'' ("Pastor Brown"), loosely based on the Chesterton character, is in production since 2003; its title theme by Martin Böttcher is a ShoutOut to the one of the Heinz Rühmann films. A [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q0q11 2013 TV series]] produced by [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC]] cast Creator/MarkWilliams of ''Series/TheFastShow'' and ''Film/HarryPotter'' fame in the title role. The trope page for that show can be found [[Series/FatherBrown here]].
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In 1934 a film version of Chesterton's priest based on "The Blue Cross"' appeared with the title ''Father Brown, Detective'', with Walter Connelly in the title rôle. In 1954 ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BNonixFao Father Brown]]'' (U.S. title, ''The Detective'') appeared with Creator/AlecGuinness as the eponymous priest. Heinz Rühmann played Father Brown in two German adaptations of Chesterton's stories, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqXBj4S2kNE Das schwarze Schaf]]'' ("The Black Sheep") (1960) and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8isZQjGO8 Er kann's nicht lassen]]'' ("He Can't Stop Doing It") (1962). (The score to these, by Martin Böttcher, became very popular in Germany.) In 1970 an Italian television series entitled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCVk_MNMe8 I racconti di padre Brown]]'' ("The Tales of Father Brown") starred the well-known Italian comedian Renato Rascel. In 1974, Kenneth More starred in a 13-episode ''Father Brown'' TV series, each episode dramatised from one of Chesterton's short stories, and generally considered the most faithful adaptation. In 1979, the TV move ''Sanctuary of Fear'' featured an American Father Brown (Barnard Hughes) sleuthing in contemporary New York City.. but the protagonist's only resemblances to Chesterton's character are his name and occupation. A German television series, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKROsrsjXI Pfarrer Braun]]'' ("Pastor Brown"), loosely based on the Chesterton character, is in production since 2003; its title theme by Martin Böttcher is a ShoutOut to the one of the Heinz Rühmann films. A [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q0q11 2013 TV series]] produced by [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC]] cast Creator/MarkWilliams of ''Series/TheFastShow'' and ''Film/HarryPotter'' fame in the title role. The trope page for that show can be found [[Series/FatherBrown here]].
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In 1934 a film version of Chesterton's priest based on "The Blue Cross"' appeared with the title ''Father Brown, Detective'', with Walter Connelly in the title rôle. In 1954 ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BNonixFao Father Brown]]'' (U.S. title, ''The Detective'') appeared with Creator/AlecGuinness as the eponymous priest. Heinz Rühmann played Father Brown in two German adaptations of Chesterton's stories, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqXBj4S2kNE Das schwarze Schaf]]'' ("The Black Sheep") (1960) and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8isZQjGO8 Er kann's nicht lassen]]'' ("He Can't Stop Doing It") (1962). (The score to these, by Martin Böttcher, became very popular in Germany.) In 1970 an Italian television series entitled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCVk_MNMe8 I racconti di padre Brown]]'' ("The Tales of Father Brown") starred the well-known Italian comedian Renato Rascel. In 1974, Kenneth More starred in a 13-episode ''Father Brown'' TV series, each episode dramatised from one of Chesterton's short stories, and generally considered the most faithful adaptation. In 1979, the TV move ''Sanctuary of Fear'' featured an American Father Brown (Barnard Hughes) sleuthing in contemporary New York City.. but the protagonist's only resemblances to Chesterton's character are his name and occupation. Andrew Sachs (of ''Series/FawltyTowers'' fame) played the character on BBC Radio from 1984 to 1986. A German television series, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKROsrsjXI Pfarrer Braun]]'' ("Pastor Brown"), loosely based on the Chesterton character, is in production since 2003; its title theme by Martin Böttcher is a ShoutOut to the one of the Heinz Rühmann films. A [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q0q11 2013 TV series]] produced by [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC]] cast Creator/MarkWilliams of ''Series/TheFastShow'' and ''Film/HarryPotter'' fame in the title role. The trope page for that show can be found [[Series/FatherBrown here]].
