The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
November 26, 1957Release Date
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
November 26, 1957Release Date
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Cast & Crew.

Van Johnson
Pied Piper / Truson

Claude Rains
Mayor of Hamelin

Lori Nelson
Mara

Jim Backus
King's Emissary

Kay Starr
John's Mother

Joseph Sargent

Doodles Weaver
First Counselor (uncredited)

Stanley Adams
Second Counselor (uncredited)

Oliver Blake
Leading Citizen (uncredited)

Rene Kroper
Paul (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien
Townsman (uncredited)

Tex Brodus
Townsman

Carl Benton Reid
Mayor of Hamelout (uncredited)

Amzie Strickland
Leading Townswoman (uncredited)

Judith Woodbury
Townswoman (uncredited)

James Gonzalez
Citizen

Irving Taylor
Writer

Hal Stanley
Writer / Producer

Robert Browning
Writer

William E. Snyder
Cinematography / Director of Photography

Norman A. Cerf
Editor

Floyd Knudtson
Editor

Arthur Lonergan
Production Design

G.W. Berntsen
Set Decoration

Monty M. Berman
Costume Design

Walter Elliott
Sound

Edvard Grieg
Music

Bretaigne Windust
Director

Jess Kirkpatrick

Cyril Delevanti
Media.


Details.
Release DateNovember 26, 1957
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
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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.
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