The Pied Piper of Basin Street

Year: 1945

Runtime: 7 mins

Language: English

Director: Shamus Culhane

Animation

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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