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MovieMail's Review
All 13 episodes from the classic 1970s ATV series featuring GK Chesterton's clergyman-cum-detective. Refreshingly for our times, its content isn't dumbed-down either, says David Parkinson.
GK Chesterton’s sleuthing priest had a habit of returning to the screen every two decades, as Walter Connolly’s 1934 Hollywood outing was followed by Alec Guinness’s 1954 Ealing escapade and Kenneth More’s TV incarnation in 1974.
The essence of the cleric eluded all, but More is quietly effective in these thirteen cases, as he observes rather than investigates and uses the understanding of human nature and evil gained in the confessional to identify the culprits.
Shot on limited budgets by ATV, the series combine 16mm exteriors and videotaped interiors. The mysteries themselves are often compelling, with The Dagger with Wings, The Arrow of Heaven and The Eye of Apollo centring on Satanic, Coptic and pagan cults, while the latter also features Dennis Burgess as Flambeau, the reformed criminal-turned-sidekick who also figures in four further episodes.
What’s most refreshing, however, is that even though the stories rattle along at a fair clip, the discussion of intellectual topics is never dumbed down.
All 13 episodes from the classic 1970s series featuring Kenneth More as the detective-cum-clergyman, Father Brown, the character created by the great British novelist G.K. Chesterton and appearing in over fifty short stories.
Episodes featured: 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, The Dagger with Wings, The Actor and the Alibi, The Quick One, The Man with Two Beards, The Head of Caesar, The Arrow of Heaven and The Secret Garden.
