The Pied Piper
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.
- Director
- Wilfred Jackson
- Signature
- Wonder · Craft · Humour
Who's in it
Cast
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4 billed performers
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Movie DNA
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Story overview
What It's About
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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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The numbers
Box Office & Release
- Budget
- $17,145
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- Domestic gross
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- Release date
- Sep 16, 1933
- Runtime
- 0h 8m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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