1933NR

The Pied Piper

Name: The Pied Piper
Genre: Animation, Music
Released: 1933-09-16
Rating: 6.5

AnimationMusic8m

🍅50%

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50%

Tomatometer

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22%

Popcornmeter

6.5

TMDB

Storyline

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

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Details

DirectorWilfred Jackson

ReleasedSep 16, 1933

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

$17.1K

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNRUS

Studio

Walt Disney Productions

Reviews

6 reviews · 5 critics

3 fresh · 2 rotten

Dan Callahan

RTSlant MagazineJun 7, 2008

Jacques Demy's version of The Pied Piper is as distanced and uncertain as his masterpiece The Young Girls of Rochefort is ecstatically sure of itself.

J. Hoberman

RTVillage VoiceNov 14, 2007

A dark and smoky affair that, although set in Germany during the Black Death summer of 1349, suggests something brainstormed in a St. Marks Place head shop.

Critic

RTTime OutOct 28, 2006

Too often Demy has seemed to be doing little but produce cinematic candy floss; this admittedly imperfect film of Browning's poem is at least trying for more.

Serge Daney

RTCahiers du CinémaNov 29, 2023

With this English film, beautiful and inexplicably unprecedented, Demy refines his mythology.