Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously (1957)

Original title

Mästerdetektiven lever farligt

Directed by

Olle Hellbom

Genre

children's film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy turns detective to solve a crime involving a murderer. He uses his wits to outsmart the villain and stop him from escaping.

light-heartedadventurousplayfulsuspensefulnostalgicbreezyfamily-friendlywhimsical

What happens

Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously (original Swedish name: Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist lever farligt) is a 1957 Swedish film about Bill Bergson (in Swedish as Kalle Blomkvist), directed by Olle Hellbom. It is based on the novel with the same name, written by Astrid Lindgren, and was recorded in Trosa, Södermanland. There are differences between the book and this film: The murderer wears checkered trousers instead of green gabardine trousers. The mansion house has been changed to a "ghost castle". In the novel, the murderer tries to escape with his car, but in the film he instead escapes with a boat but can't because Kalle, who is also on the boat, takes the revolver from him and shoots holes in the boat. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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