The Pied Piper
The Pied Piper
Release: 1972-12-27
·Runtime: 90m
·★ 5.9
Fantasy
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Germany
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Goodtimes Enterprises
Sagittarius Productions
Cast
Donald Pleasence
as The Baron
Patsy Puttnam
as Helga
Hamilton Dyce
as Papal Nuncio
John Hurt
as Franz
Cathryn Harrison
as Lisa
David Leland
as Officer
Roger Hammond
as Burger
Donovan
as The Pied Piper
Diana Dors
as Frau Poppendick
Arthur Hewlett
as Otto
Peter Vaughan
as Bishop
Peter Eyre
as Pilgrim
Michael Hordern
as Melius, Alchemist
Jack Wild
as Gavin
David Nettheim
as Kulik (as David Netheim)
Keith Buckley
as Mattio
Roy Kinnear
as Burgermeister Poppendick
André van Gyseghem
as Friar
John Welsh
as Chancellor
