The Pied Piper Of Hamelin. 1957.
A medieval town is over run with rats, the mayor hires a mysterious piper to help get rid of them but refuses to pay the piper.
Why can't Hollywood or other big studios make films like these nowadays, ok it was a made for T.V. movie but this was enjoyable, Van Johnson in a double role of Truson a villager and the pied piper, Claude Rains plays the greedy town Mayor and Lori Nelson and as the female lead Nora. There is a lot of singing and rhyming when people talk that makes it a bit more laughable, the cinematography is brilliant to see in these old movies, even seeing the rats runs is almost like animation and a nice background score including In The Hall of the Mountain King.
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