The showiest credit from Billy Wilder's German film career, apart from People on Sunday. I saw this without subtitles but it wasn't that hard to follow what was going on. Emil is a kid, son of a single mother who gets conned on a train on the way to Berlin and loses money he has to get back. A little like Jack and the Beanstalk.
Wilder rewrote a screenplay by the original novelist and Emeric Pressburger. It's quite adult in a way - the baddie drugs Emil on a train - and also a film of its time: Emil and his cronies run around a city unsupervised. Lots of location footage of Berlin, nice acting, high spirits.
I'm sure I missed some jokes but it was fun enough.
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