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== Adaptations ==
"The Sign of the Broken Sword" influenced Jorge Luis Borges's "[[Theme of the Traitor and the Hero]]," a 1944 short story in which an fictional Irish revolutionary named Fergus Kilpatrick betrays his comrades and consents to his assassination by them in such a manner as to strengthen the Irish nationalist cause. The traitor's biographer, Ryan, chooses to leave the myth intact.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Estenoz |first=Alfredo Alonso |date=2011 |title=The Words That Are Not There: Chesterton in Borges's "the Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24881525 |journal=Variaciones Borges |issue=32 |pages=21–40 |issn=1396-0482}}</ref>
Chesterton's story was adapted for Season 3 of the TV series ''[[Father Brown (2013 TV series)|Father Brown]]''. The episode aired in 2015 on [[BBC One]], with [[Angus Wright (actor)|Angus Wright]] playing Colonel Laurence St. Claire (renamed from the original villain). Screenwriters changed the setting to the twentieth century and the Battle of the Black River to the [[Battle of Dunkirk]]. Brazil and Olivier do not feature in the adaptation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC One - Father Brown, Series 3, The Sign of the Broken Sword |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xthql |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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