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The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

19336.50h 8m

Overview

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson
Written by Robert Browning, Webb Smith, Ted Sears
Produced by Walt Disney
Box OfficeBudget: $17K0

Top Cast

G

George Gramlich

The Pied Piper (voice) (uncredited)

A

Allan Watson

King (voice) (uncredited)

M

Marion Darlington

Rats (voice) (uncredited)

H

Harriette Haddon

Rats (voice) (uncredited)

Themes & Keywords

fairy talecartoonshort film

About The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper is a animation, music film released in 1933 exploring themes of fairy tale, cartoon, short film. Directed by Wilfred Jackson, it stars George Gramlich, Allan Watson, Marion Darlington. The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

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