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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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