The Pied Piper
1972Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
Acted in
Donovan
as The Pied Piper
Diana Dors
as Frau Poppendick
Donald Pleasence
as The Baron
Roy Kinnear
as Burgermeister Poppendick
John Hurt
as Franz
Michael Hordern
as Melius, Alchemist
Jack Wild
as Gavin
Peter Vaughan
as Bishop
Keith Buckley
as Mattio
Cathryn Harrison
as Lisa
Peter Eyre
as Pilgrim
David Leland
as Officer
Patsy Puttnam
as Helga
Arthur Hewlett
as Otto
Paul Hennen
as Karl
Michael Goldie
as Burger
André van Gyseghem
as Friar
John Falconer
as Priest
Clive Elliot
as Priest
Sammie Winmill
as Gretel
John Welsh
as Chancellor
David Nettheim
as Kulik (as David Netheim)
Gertan Klauber
as Town Cryer
Hamilton Dyce
as Papal Nuncio
Roger Hammond
as Burger
Edwin Brown
as Burger
George Cormack
as Burger
Mary MacLeod
as Maidservant (as Mary McLeod)
Harry Fielder
as Flunky (uncredited)
Sacha Puttnam
as Little Boy (uncredited)
Fred Wood
as Burger (uncredited)