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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

5.6 87 mins Music   Fantasy   Comedy   TV Movie   1957
Hal Stanley Productions  
Director(s): Bretaigne Windust

The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regret.

Casts of The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Van Johnson

as Pied Piper / Truson

Claude Rains

as Mayor of Hamelin

Lori Nelson

as Mara

Jim Backus

as King's Emissary

Kay Starr

as John's Mother

Doodles Weaver

as First Counselor (uncredited)

Stanley Adams

as Second Counselor (uncredited)

Oliver Blake

as Leading Citizen (uncredited)

Rene Kroper

as Paul (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

as Townsman (uncredited)

Carl Benton Reid

as Mayor of Hamelout (uncredited)

Amzie Strickland

as Leading Townswoman (uncredited)

Judith Woodbury

as Townswoman (uncredited)

James Gonzalez

as Citizen

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