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The Pied Piper of Basin Street (1945) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1945 · 7 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Shamus Culhane
- Starring
- Dick Nelson, Harry Lang, GeGe Pearson
A retelling of the Pied Piper shows a town infested with rats turning to a trombone player (Jimmy Durante) after the mayor, a Lou Costello caricature, begs for help. He offers to drive the rodents out for a fee, leads them into a cage with his music, then is denied his reward. Wearing a “Hank Swoonatra” suit, he lures townspeople onto a showboat, releases the rats and they swarm the mayor, giving him a taste of his own neglect.
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