Emil and the Detectives (1931)
(Emil und die Detektive)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 75m
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht
Cast: Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack, Fritz Rasp
Synopsis:
A boy on a train from Neustadt to Berlin to visit his grandmother is pickpocketed by a fellow traveller, but manages to follow him and recruit the help of some local boys in retrieving his mother's hard-earned cash.
Review:
Billie (sic) Wilder scripted this adaptation of a still-popular children's classic, incorporating some Hitchcockian embellishments such as the boy's being shut in the hotel room with the thief, and adding the knockabout rivalry between Emil and Gustav for the favours of Pony. The optical effects employed in the train compartment to convey the dreams of the drugged Emil (another embellishment) are particularly impressive, and this is a brisk and chirpy realization of the book that matched pretty closely the images in this reader's head.
(Emil und die Detektive)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 75m
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht
Cast: Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack, Fritz Rasp
Synopsis:
A boy on a train from Neustadt to Berlin to visit his grandmother is pickpocketed by a fellow traveller, but manages to follow him and recruit the help of some local boys in retrieving his mother's hard-earned cash.
Review:
Billie (sic) Wilder scripted this adaptation of a still-popular children's classic, incorporating some Hitchcockian embellishments such as the boy's being shut in the hotel room with the thief, and adding the knockabout rivalry between Emil and Gustav for the favours of Pony. The optical effects employed in the train compartment to convey the dreams of the drugged Emil (another embellishment) are particularly impressive, and this is a brisk and chirpy realization of the book that matched pretty closely the images in this reader's head.
(Emil und die Detektive)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 75m
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht
Cast: Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack, Fritz Rasp
Synopsis:
A boy on a train from Neustadt to Berlin to visit his grandmother is pickpocketed by a fellow traveller, but manages to follow him and recruit the help of some local boys in retrieving his mother's hard-earned cash.
Review:
Billie (sic) Wilder scripted this adaptation of a still-popular children's classic, incorporating some Hitchcockian embellishments such as the boy's being shut in the hotel room with the thief, and adding the knockabout rivalry between Emil and Gustav for the favours of Pony. The optical effects employed in the train compartment to convey the dreams of the drugged Emil (another embellishment) are particularly impressive, and this is a brisk and chirpy realization of the book that matched pretty closely the images in this reader's head.