The Pied Piper (1933)
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.
Key facts
- Released:
- 1933-09-16
- Runtime:
- 8 min
- Genres:
- Animation, Music
- Director:
- Wilfred Jackson
- Top cast:
- George Gramlich, Allan Watson, Marion Darlington, Harriette Haddon
- Original language:
- EN
- TMDB rating:
- 6.5/10 from 72 votes
- Bynge Score:
- 6.2/10