Emil and the Detectives

19641964
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1h 39m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

747

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Comedy Crime Drama

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and... Read allEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

747

YOUR RATING

- Peter Tewksbury
- AJ Carothers(screenplay by)
- Erich Kästner(based on the novel by)
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AJ Carothers, Cindy Cassell, Erich Kästner, Roger Mobley, Bryan Russell, Walter Slezak, and Peter Tewksbury in Emil and the Detectives (1964)

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Trivia
Billy Wilder apparently contributed to the screenplay.

Goofs
The seats are numbered on the bus Emil takes from Neustadt to Berlin. At 0:04:38 the number 13 is on the back of Emil's seat. At 0:04:54 the number 1 is on the toddler's seat in front of Emil. At 0:05:13 the numbers 1 and 2 are on the empty window seat immediately behind the driver and the aisle seat to its right where August Grundeis is initially seated. Apparently, the toddler's side of its interaction with Emil were shot in the front of the bus.

Quotes
Gustav: What are you looking at?
Pony: Nothing. Nothing at all.

Connections
Edited into The Magical World of Disney: Emil and the Detectives: Part 1 (1966)

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Featured review

7/10

Could've been greater

A respectable and watchable film.

I do feel 'Emil and the Detectives' could've been bigger and better, there's a load of good ingredients there. With that said, it is still a film that has its pluses. One is how it looks, with cool shots of 1960s Berlin. Another is the humour which is pretty solid.

The cast is where it gets underwhelming, not in terms of the actors but just in regards to the characters and their respective developments. Heinz Schubert, Walter Slezak and Peter Ehrlich are suitable choices to portray Grundeis, The Baron and Müller. However, they never really get out of second gear. I personally wanted more from the trio.

Then you have the child actors, for which there are many - probably too many as none of them, aside from Emil (Bryan Russell) and Gustav (Roger Mobley), get much development or even serious screen time.

As for the premise, it's entertaining. Like with what I've already noted, it's all just a bit safe and mild. It definitely could've been greater. I still had a fun enough time with this, though.

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