Father Brown, Detective

Walter Connolly is Father Brown in this version of his duel with Flambeau, played by Paul Lukas. Lukas wants the diamond-encrusted crucifix that Connolly always carries. He wants to give the diamonds to Gertrude Michael, whom he loves. The police, in the persons of Scotland Yard Inspector Robert Loraine, and his sergeant, E. E. Clive, want him for his past crimes. And Connolly wants him for G*d. Because the movie is not so much about Connolly, but about the redemption of Lukas.

It's not the movie. You'd expect a comedy expert like Eddie Sedgwick to direct, but it's the most accurate film version of Brown I've ever seen.... although that is not saying much. Connolly plays the priest with a humility I have not seen before, and Sedgwick manages to get a nice comic sequence when Lukas, disguised as a Portuguese priest, walks with Connolly about London. With Halliwell Hobbes and Una O'Connor.