The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

90 mins | Drama, Fantasy | Dec. 27, 1972

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.

The Pied Piper

90 mins | Drama, Fantasy | Dec. 27, 1972

The Pied Piper
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Goodtimes Enterprises, Sagittarius Productions
Original title The Pied Piper
Directors Jacques Demy
Writers Jacques Demy, Mark Peploe, Andrew Birkin

Cast

Donovan

as The Pied Piper

Diana Dors

as Frau Poppendick

Donald Pleasence

as The Baron

Roy Kinnear

as Burgermeister Poppendick

John Hurt

as Franz

Michael Hordern

as Melius, Alchemist

Jack Wild

as Gavin

Peter Vaughan

as Bishop

Keith Buckley

as Mattio

Peter Eyre

as Pilgrim

David Leland

as Officer

Patsy Puttnam

as Helga

Arthur Hewlett

as Otto

Paul Hennen

as Karl

Michael Goldie

as Burger

John Falconer

as Priest

Clive Elliot

as Priest

Sammie Winmill

as Gretel

John Welsh

as Chancellor

David Nettheim

as Kulik (as David Netheim)

Gertan Klauber

as Town Cryer

Hamilton Dyce

as Papal Nuncio

Roger Hammond

as Burger

Edwin Brown

as Burger

George Cormack

as Burger

Mary MacLeod

as Maidservant (as Mary McLeod)

Harry Fielder

as Flunky (uncredited)

Sacha Puttnam

as Little Boy (uncredited)

Fred Wood

as Burger (uncredited)