Father Brown - Set 1
by Peter Jefferies, Robert Tronson
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Actor: Dennis Burgess, Kenneth MoreDirector: Peter Jefferies, Robert Tronson
Brand: Acorn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 364 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: ACORN MEDIA
Movie Reviews of Father Brown - Set 1
Movie Review: Local ale and a visiting priest
Summary: 5 Stars
G.K. Chesterton was the first president of the Detection Club. Dorothy L. Sayers, author of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, was the second. As Dale Ahlquist points out in The Apostle of Common Sense, early authors of detective fiction had a problem. They couldn't out do Conan Doyle, then all the rage. Rather than take on Sherlock Holmes, Chesterton did something entirely different with Father Brown.
He drew from his friend, Father John O'Connor, for certain particulars of Father Brown, but he got the idea overhearing an aside from two Oxford undergraduates saying what a shame it was for a man to throw himself away in the priesthood, avoiding, as he must be, the various shocks of the real world. Chesterton found amusing the idea that a priest who did almost nothing but hear grisly confessions should know nothing of the dark side of human nature. Therefore, Father Brown says things like this: "You see it was I who killed all those people...I mean that I thought and thought about how a man might come to be like that until I realized that I really was like that in everything but actual final consent to the action."
Father Brown stories began appearing in The Saturday Evening Post in 1910, and found their way onto TV in the states when they aired on PBS' "Mystery!" in the mid- '70s. There is one sense in which these shows differ from the books, and that is that they lack the narrator. The surprise is how well they hold up without it, and in the British TV tradition of "less is more", evoke the sense of fog surrounding the various cases and which Kenneth More as the unassuming little priest progressively cuts through. These seven episodes from ATV released through Granada run about 365 minutes and include brief bios of Chesterton and the cast. "I always like to try the local ale," says Father Brown. Quaffing that British beverage is a bit like meeting Father Brown, who begins as a stranger and ends as a friend.
The seven episodes of Series One include:
The Hammer of God, The Oracle of the Dog, The Curse of the Golden Cross, The Eye of Apollo, The Three Tools of Death, The Mirror of the Magistrate and The Dagger with Wings.
Summary of Father Brown - Set 1
G.K. Chesterton?s kindly, cassocked crime-solverWith a distinct twinkle behind his spectacles, Kenneth More brings G.K. Chesterton?s beloved Father Brown to the screen in a classic British television series. When it comes to amateur detective work, don?t let this priest?s absent-minded air and penchant for an occasional tipple fool you. His kindly eyes pick up clues that professionals usually miss, and his keen understanding of the human condition lets him search men?s souls for motives. Often joined by his friend, the thief-turned-private-investigator Hercule Flambeau (Dennis Burgess), Father Brown has won legions of fans as much for his compassion as for his crime-solving.
Setting Father Brown in the 1920s, Chesterton played with the structure and elements of the detective genre, and these delightful screenplays convey all the charm, cleverness, and suspense of Chesterton?s original work. You?ll welcome visits from Father Brown, again and again. As seen on the PBS Mystery! series.
Includes G.K. Chesterton bio and cast filmographies
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