Emil und die Detektive

For a film about a bunch of children chasing around a thief it's surprisingly entertaining and occasionally sharply written. It's still kind of simplistic and the child acting is merely passable, but it's fun and well made.

Billy Wilder shows his early talent as a crowd-pleasing writer with this timeless family film about precocious kids taking on a nefarious thief. It’s sweet, energetic and pretty funny, all the while providing a wonderful snapshot of bustling 1930s Berlin. And after the fantastically-executed hallucination scene where Emil has been drugged, no child in the audience would ever think about taking candy from a stranger.

A really good childrens movie with legendary German movie villain Fritz Rasp as the thief who steals Emil's money. That sets up kids from all over the place to hunt for the thief to try and catch him. I especially loved the way the established Rasp as the bad guy on the train with all the trick photography to let everyone know he was a real sleezebag,