Neulovimye mstiteli

This film by Edmond Keosayan was released in the Soviet Union around the time of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Its success was enormous. Not only because of the box office potential of the film itself, but also because young Soviet spectators remembered their fathers and grandfathers speak adoringly of the black and white silent Soviet hit Little Red Devils, of which The Elusive Avengers was a remake in Cinemascope. Tom, the black circus boy from the original film, was replaced by the picturesque gypsy Yashka, with the bright and clever Valerka as his friend, to show Soviet audiences that the intelligentsia now had permission to take a small part in the new Communist way of life. (Sergey Lavrentyev)