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{en} Emil and the Detectives [1] (UK, 1935), directed by Milton Rosmer, starring John Williams, George Hayes and Mary Glynne.

While on a train from his home in the countryside to stay with his grandmother in London, a boy named Emil suspects that he has been robbed of his money by a suspicious-looking man in the same carriage wearing a bowler hat. In London, with the help of a gang of street children, he pursues the suspect until he is eventually able to recover the money.

Erich Kästner's beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. The setting is moved from Berlin, Germany to London, England.