Paganini Strikes Again

Paganini Strikes Again is a 1973 British children's film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Julie Dawn Cole, Dudley Sutton, Philip Bliss and Andrew Bowen.

Learning from the police that a nearby jeweller's shop has been robbed, they set off to catch the thief.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A chase on foot seems to be as de rigueur for children's films these days as the car chase in the adult variety, but the one in Paganini Strikes Again is a rather dull affair, taking its momentum from a speeded-up sequence on the escalators of the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre.

The rest of the film has no need of such gimmicks, for it has an economical and intelligent script ... which exactly catches the casual, jokey relationship of the bright young adolescent detectives, admirably played by Andrew Bowen and Philip Bliss.

The boys' interest in music gives plenty of scope for both aural and visual gags – the Inspector's joking entreaty to "Give us a tune" whenever he sees Bill and Mike is finally answered when the boys draw the police to the container in which they are incarcerated by breaking open a box of instruments and playing them all at once.