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In 1934 a film version of Chesterton's priest based on "The Blue Cross"' appeared with the title ''Father Brown, Detective'', with Walter Connelly in the title rôle. In 1954 ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BNonixFao Father Brown]'' (U.S. title, ''The Detective'') appeared with Alec Guinness as the eponymous priest. Heinz Rühmann played Father Brown in two German adaptations of Chesterton's stories, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqXBj4S2kNE Das schwarze Schaf]'' ("The Black Sheep") (1960) and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8isZQjGO8 Er kann's nicht lassen]'' ("He Can't Stop Doing It") (1962). (The score to these, by Martin Böttcher, became very popular in Germany.) In 1970 an Italian television series entitled ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCVk_MNMe8 I racconti di padre Brown]'' ("The Tales of Father Brown") starred the well-known Italian comedian Renato Rascel. In 1974, Kenneth More starred in a 13-episode ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UZG6S-vCY8 Father Brown]'' TV series, each episode adapted from one of Chesterton's short stories. In 1979, the TV move ''Sanctuary of Fear'' featured an American Father Brown (Barnard Hughes) sleuthing in contemporary New York City. A German television series, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKROsrsjXI Pfarrer Braun]'' ("Pastor Brown"), loosely based on the Chesterton character, is in production since 2003; its title theme by Martin Böttcher is a [[Shout-Out]] to the one of the Heinz Rühmann films.
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* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: In "The Sign of the Broken Sword".
* [[The Reveal]]: One of the bases of [[Mystery Fiction]], of course.
* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]: In one episode of the TV show, someone cannot speak but has a paper saying she cannot speak; when someone answers it, she turn the page and reveals the response to their response, and then someone else says again, and on the next page is the response to that, that she must had already written down all of the responses ahead of time.
* [[The Unfair Sex]]: Provides a blind in "The Oracle of the Dog."
* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: In {{spoiler|"The Sign of the Broken Sword."}}
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