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# GKC Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/33613/
- Published: 2014-08-13T07:29:22.000Z
- Updated: 2014-08-13T07:29:22.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

**Background**: When I was the editor of *[Gilbert Magazine](http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

Chesterton Short(s)

The first Father Brown motion picture, a 67-minute feature starring Walter Connolly as the priest, Paul Lukas as Flambeau, and Robert Loraine as Valentin, was released by Paramount in 1935 with the title *Father Brown, Detective*. Chesterton saw the film himself and said he liked it. Several inadvertent flaws in the film's presentation of clergymen suggested to Chesterton the basic idea for a new Father Brown story, "The Vampire of the Village." \[*The Motion Picture Guide: 1927-1983*, vol. E-G, Chicago: Cinebooks, 1986, 823; Maisie Ward, *Gilbert Keith Chesterton*, New York 1943, 597\]