Genre: MusicFantasyComedyTV Movie
Runtime: 87 min
Average vote: 5.333
Release date: 1957-11-26
Director: 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.
Van Johnson
as
Pied Piper / T...
Claude Rains
as
Mayor of Hamel...
Lori Nelson
as
Mara
Jim Backus
as
King's Emissary
Kay Starr
as
John's Mother
Joseph Sargent
Doodles Weaver
as
First Counselo...
Stanley Adams
as
Second Counsel...
Oliver Blake
as
Leading Citize...
Rene Kroper
as
Paul (uncredit...
William H. O'B...
as
Townsman (uncr...
Carl Benton Re...
as
Mayor of Hamel...
Amzie Strickla...
as
Leading Townsw...
Judith Woodbury
as
Townswoman (un...
Cyril Delevanti
James Gonzalez
as
Citizen
Jess Kirkpatri...