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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

56% | Nov 26, 1957 | Music, Fantasy, Comedy, TV Movie

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.

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Irving Taylor
Writer
Hal Stanley
Writer

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Van Johnson
Pied Piper / Truson
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Claude Rains
Mayor of Hamelin
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Jim Backus
King's Emissary
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Kay Starr
John's Mother

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