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The Pied Piper of Basin Street (1945)

ALL 01/15/1945 (en) Animation 7 Min
  • Release
    01/15/1945
  • Production
    Walter Lantz Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    62%
  • Original title
    The Pied Piper of Basin Street
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

In this swing version of the famous tale, a small town is overrun with rats. The mayor (caricature of Lou Costello) is in a quandary. His phones are busy with demands to do something. He hears a voice say: "what you need is a Pied Piper." Looking up, he sees a young man with a trombone (Jimmy Durante) who claims that he can run every rat out of town for a fee. The mayor makes a deal with him, and the trombone player goes to work leading the rats out of town with the playing of his trombone, and he locks them in a cage. Returning to the mayor's office, he's handed a bag of peanuts and thrown out. Unable to get the reward promised, the Pied Piper puts on his "Hank Swoonatra" (Frank Sinatra) suit croons to the girls. He leads them aboard a swinging showboat and opens the cage full of rats and they return to town, where only the mayor is left. The rats swarm the mayor's office and give him a bad time for his treatment of the pied piper. Production Number: D-10 A Swing Symphony cartoon.

  1. Shamus Culhane

    Director

  3. Editor

  4. Walter Lantz

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Harry Lang

    The Mayor (uncredited)

  2. GeGe Pearson

    Nylon Girl Rat / Scared Woman (uncredited)

  3. Dick Nelson

    Dead End Rats / Red Skelton Rat / Grocer / Ned Sparks Taxpayer / Pied Piper / Solid Jackson (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 3 , Crews : 9

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The Pied Piper of Basin Street (1945) 7 Min

ALL 01/15/1945 (en)
Animation
  • Release 01/15/1945
  • Production
    Walter Lantz Productions
  • Original title The Pied Piper of Basin Street
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In this swing version of the famous tale, a small town is overrun with rats. The mayor (caricature of Lou Costello) is in a quandary. His phones are busy with demands to do something. He hears a voice say: "what you need is a Pied Piper." Looking up, he sees a young man with a trombone (Jimmy Durante) who claims that he can run every rat out of town for a fee. The mayor makes a deal with him, and the trombone player goes to work leading the rats out of town with the playing of his trombone, and he locks them in a cage. Returning to the mayor's office, he's handed a bag of peanuts and thrown out. Unable to get the reward promised, the Pied Piper puts on his "Hank Swoonatra" (Frank Sinatra) suit croons to the girls. He leads them aboard a swinging showboat and opens the cage full of rats and they return to town, where only the mayor is left. The rats swarm the mayor's office and give him a bad time for his treatment of the pied piper. Production Number: D-10 A Swing Symphony cartoon.

  1. Shamus Culhane

    Director

  2. Ben Hardaway, Milt Schaffer

    Story

  3. Editor

  4. Walter Lantz

    Producer



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