Father Brown, Detective is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas and Gertrude Michael. [1] It is based on the 1910 Father Brown story "The Blue Cross" by G. K. Chesterton. [2] [3]

Father Brown, Detective: Directed by Edward Sedgwick. With Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, Gertrude Michael, Robert Loraine. Father Brown is trying to stop a known theft taking 10 diamonds and showing he is wrong in the eyes of god.

Flambeau has appeared in several film, television and radio adaptations. Actors who have portrayed him include: Paul Lukas – Father Brown, Detective (1934 film); Bill Griffis – The Adventures of Father Brown (1945 radio series); Peter Finch – Father Brown/The Detective (US title) (1954 film); Siegfried Lowitz – Das schwarze Schaf (The Black Sheep) (1960 film)

Based on the short story "The Wisdom of Father Brown" by G. K. Chesterton in the Father Brown Omnibus (New York, 1915). After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her.

Father Brown, Detective (1934): Film, 68 minutes; director Edward Sedgwick; writers Henry Myers, C. Gardner Sullivan; featuring Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, Gertrude Michael, Robert Loraine. G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown is an elusive character for presentation on large and small screens as a practitioner of detection.

Father Brown, Detective (1934) - Directed by Edward Sedgwick, produced by Edward Sedgwick, Bayard Veiller, Emanuel Cohen and starring Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, Gertrude Michael, Robert Loraine, Halliwell Hobbes, Una O'Connor, E.E. Clive, Donald Gray,and more...

Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; 26 May 1894 – 15 August 1971) was a Hungarian actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, for his performance in the film Watch on the Rhine (1943), reprising the role he created on the Broadway stage.

Following the basic plot used in the better Alec Guiness film Father Brown is attempting to stop the thief Flambeau (Paul Lukas) from stealing a diamond encrusted cross that is in the possession of his Parrish.

After Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer and vows to steal the "Flying Star" diamonds for her, Father Brown intervenes to prevent the theft and redeem Flambeau's soul. Cast (8) Paul Lukas