Emil and the Detectives
Movie • 1964
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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. Emil must get the money back as it is for his grandmother. While following the thief, Emil runs into Gustav, an enterprising young boy who gathers up all his friends to help Emil find the money. Emil's cousin also gets involved and they get into more trouble than they bargained for when Emil's pickpocket turns out to be mixed up with a couple of notorious bank robbers.
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Emil is captured by bank robbers who trap him and set a bomb to kill him, but Gustav moves the bomb away in time, and police free Emil, unharmed.
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Gustav's father is absent and neglectful. Gustav says his father doesn't care about what he does, and won't get in trouble for staying out all night.
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When going up some stairs, there's roughly 10 seconds of shakey cam.
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The bank robbers fill in the entrance of a tunnel, trapping Emil and Herr Grundeis. They intend to leave them to die in an explosion. Both are rescued and survive.
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Throughout the film, the police are unhelpful to the children, who are dealing with what turns out to be a serious crime and wanted criminals. Only at the very end to they rescue Emil and arrest the bank robbers. If anything, this is the opposite of copaganda.
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Characters are in underground tunnels.
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The children detectives follow a crook without him knowing.
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Pony has a brief anxiety attack when she learns that Emil is somewhere in Berlin without contacting their grandmother.
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The main character is kidnapped by the villains.
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Gustav has a car horn in his coat, which he honks as a joke, and as a signal to the other boys.
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Emil fails to meet his grandmother, and instead goes on an adventure without her knowing where he is.
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Emil and Gustav accidentally sneak up on each other, thinking the other one is a bad guy, and both scream as they jump around a corner to face each other.
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Emil is tied by the hands (in front of his body).
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