The Pied Piper of Basin Street

The Pied Piper of Basin Street

1945
7m
6.2

6.2/10

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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.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Walter Lantz Productions
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date January 15, 1945
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0151970

Cast

Harry Lang
Harry Lang

The Mayor (uncredited)

GeGe Pearson
GeGe Pearson

Nylon Girl Rat / Scared Woman (uncredited)

Dick Nelson
Dick Nelson

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

Key Crew

Shamus Culhane
Director
Walter Lantz
Producer

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