The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
November 26, 1957Release Date
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
November 26, 1957Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently The Pied Piper of Hamelin is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Classix, FilmBox+, Plex, Plex Player, Plex Channel, FlixFling, Amazon Video, Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Pure Flix, MGM Plus Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, DistroTV, The Film Detective, Public Domain Movies
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Van Johnson
Pied Piper
Claude Rains
Mayor of Hamelin
Lori Nelson
Mara
Jim Backus
King's Emissary
Kay Starr
John's Mother
Doodles Weaver
First Counselor (uncredited)
Stanley Adams
Second Counselor (uncredited)
Oliver Blake
Leading Citizen (uncredited)
Robert Browning
Writer
Rene Kroper
Paul (uncredited)
Les Clark
Actor
William H. O'Brien
Townsman (uncredited)
Brian Corcoran
Actor
Carl Benton Reid
Mayor of Hamelout (uncredited)
Cyril Delevanti
Actor
Bretaigne Windust
Director
Amzie Strickland
Leading Townswoman (uncredited)
Judith Woodbury
Townswoman (uncredited)
Hal Stanley
Writer
James Gonzalez
Citizen
William E. Snyder
Cinematographer
Norman A. Cerf
Editor
Floyd Knudtson
Editor
Arthur Lonergan
ProductionDesigner
Edvard Grieg
Music
G.W. Berntsen
Set Decoration
Walter Elliott
Sound
Irving Taylor
Writer
Monty M. Berman
Costume Design
Joseph Sargent
Jess Kirkpatrick
Details.
Wiki.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is an American musical film based on the famous poem of the same name by Robert Browning and using the music of Edvard Grieg, arranged by Pete King with new lyrics by Hal Stanley and Irving Taylor. It stars Van Johnson, Claude Rains (in his only singing and dancing role), Lori Nelson, Jim Backus and Kay Starr. It was directed by Broadway veteran Bretaigne Windust. Nearly all of the dialogue in The Pied Piper of Hamelin is spoken in rhyme, much of it directly lifted from Browning's poem.
Initially airing on NBC on November 26, 1957, The Pied Piper of Hamelin was the first television film not presented live, in contrast to the usual televised family specials of the era, but on motion picture film using three-strip Technicolor, a tactic whose previous use on television was solely for the one-hour science specials Our Mr. Sun and Hemo the Magnificent. Theatrical prints erroneously bill the film as having been made in Eastmancolor.
Preempting that evening's telecasts of The Nat King Cole Show and The Eddie Fisher Show, the film's success spawned a record album, and it re-aired on NBC in 1958 before syndication on various local stations, where it was rerun annually in the tradition of other holiday specials. It received a brief theatrical release in 1966, though it did not fare nearly as well.