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Director:
Peter Tewksbury
Writers:
AJ Carothers (writer)
Erich Kästner (novel)
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Release Date:
18 December 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family | Drama | Crime more
Plot:
When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A Master Criminal Undone more (4 total)

Cast

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Walter Slezak ... Baron
Bryan Russell ... Emil Tischbein (as Bryan Russel)
Roger Mobley ... Gustav
Heinz Schubert ... Grundeis
Peter Ehrlich ... Müller
Cindy Cassell ... Pony (as Cindy Cassel)
Elsa Wagner ... Nana
Eva Ingeborg Scholz ... Frau Tischbein (as Eva-Ingeborg Scholz)
Wolfgang Völz ... Wachtmeister Stucke
Franz Nicklisch ... Desk Sergeant
Brian Richardson ... Professor
Robert Swann ... Hermann
David Petrychka ... Dienstag
Ann Noland ... Frieda
Ron Johnson ... Rudolf
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Runtime:
92 min | Netherlands:99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
Iceland:L | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | West Germany:6
Filming Locations:
Berliner Union-Film Studio, Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany more
Company:
Walt Disney Productions more

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Movie Connections:
Edited into "Disneyland: Emil and the Detectives: Part 1 (#13.1)" (1966) more

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A Master Criminal Undone, 11 April 2008
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Back when I was in school taking high school Spanish, this book in a Spanish translation was a text used in my course. We read it for about a third of the semester. Of course it was called Emilio Y Los Detectivos.

So of course I had to go see Emil and the Detectives when it was out in the theater and I found it to be a very good Disney production of the story. To make it cinematically viable parts of the story were emphasized and others were not.

Walter Slezak looked like he was having a great old time playing the master criminal who just can't get good help. Young Bryan Russell is on a train to Berlin to visit his grandmother and he had a sum of money which unfortunately attracts the attention of Heinz Schubert one of two lugnuts who are Slezak's henchmen. Slezak, Schubert, and Peter Ehrlich are planning a bank robbery, a tunnel job. Slezak is understandably upset that Schubert would risk arrest for a petty theft and thereby put the bank job in jeopardy.

But it's no petty theft to Russell who falls in with a gang of Berlin street urchins headed by Roger Mobley. Since this is a Disney film, I think you can guess the rest of it. The kids deal with the crooks in their own unique way.

I remember it was a fun movie and I did so enjoy Walter Slezak in the role of the master criminal done in by kids. I do so hope TCM runs this at some point.

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