Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Plot Synopsis:
------------------- 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.
Written byWritten by: April M. Cheek

Billy Wilder apparently contributed to the screenplay.
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In the movie's opening credits, the three thieves are referred to as "skrinks". This appears to have been a term coined for use in the movie that didn't catch on as slang. At 0:18:24 Gustav Fleischmann says "... the name of the hotel went skrinking off down the gutter." At 0:26:00 Dienstag says "It's only my skrinky sister." At 0:46:16 Gustav says "You bet your skrunky buttons it is." At 1:06:02 Gustav says "Well, it won't do us any good to sit around, shaking our heads like a bunch of skrinky old women." At 1:38:21 the narrator says "... and the world is full of skrinks." Emil and the Detectives (1964) was serialized on The New Mickey Mouse Club (1977) as 'The Three Skrinks'.
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Disney released this movie with the featurette, The Tattooed Police Horse (1964).
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In a 9/6/1963 article in 'Stars and Stripes' reporter James Gunter writes "Walt Disney said six American children selected in Europe as tryouts will appear in his new movie, Emil and the Detectives (1964), to be filmed in Berlin and West Germany this Fall." Roles were won by Bryan Richardson of Wiesbaden, David Petrychka of Munich, Ann Noland of Berlin, Bob Swann of Kaiserslautern and Rick and Ronald Johnson, twin boys from Bad Toelz. Peter Herold, associate producer of Emil and the Detectives, said camera work on the picture will begin Monday (9/9/1963) in Augsfeld, West Germany, about 60 miles north of Frankfurt. The cast will move to Berlin Sept. 16 to work on the picture for about 10 weeks (through about November 23).
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The 300 marks Emil is taking to his grandmother would equate to about $75 at the time, or about $622 in 2019.
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Star Walter Slezak had a long career in films, dating back to European silent films in 1922.
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When Gustav phones Dienstag, Dienstag's sister Frieda, who Dienstag has locked out of the room, is reaching in through a window and has picked the handset off the ringing phone when Dienstag seizes her hand at 0:38:05, but an insert shot at 0:38:07 shows the handset is still setting on the phone which is still ringing.
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The seats are numbered on the bus Emil takes from Neustadt to Berlin. At 0:04:38 the number 13 is on the back of Emil's seat. At 0:04:54 the number 1 is on the toddler's seat in front of Emil. At 0:05:13 the numbers 1 and 2 are on the empty window seat immediately behind the driver and the aisle seat to its right where August Grundeis is initially seated. Apparently, the toddler's side of its interaction with Emil were shot in the front of the bus.
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