Release Date: 1957-11-26
Overview: 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.
Rating: 5.4 / 10
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
Irving Taylor - Writer
Hal Stanley - Writer
Robert Browning - Writer
Hal Stanley - Producer
William E. Snyder - Cinematography
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