He also shows us that Father Brown is a character with depth as he takes lessons in karate and truly learns what the lives of his less than well-off parishioners are like. Guinness shows us the heart and dedication Father Brown has to his calling spiritually over any temporal considerations. Alec Guinness plays the affable cleric with an insatiable appetite for puzzles very nicely. Of the films, The Detective(US title) is the best.
The character has appeared in only a handful of films and a 13 episode television series in the early seventies. Chesterton's Father Brown is easily the most overlooked. Of all the names in the pantheon of great literary detectives, G.
