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Released
1954 · FILM

The Detective

An open and shut case of Guinness! Up to his EARS in chaos... Up to his NECK in laughs

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Runtime
91 min
ComedyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Gordon HalesShot by Harry WaxmanScored by Georges Auric

Also known as

  • Die seltsamen Wege des Pater Brownde
  • Father Brown – Detectiveen
  • The Detectiveen
  • El detectivees
  • Détective du bon Dieufr

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