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The Pied Piper

  • 19421942
  • 1h 27m
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7.0/10
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Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall, and Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
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While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.
IMDb RATING
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647
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    • Irving Pichel
    • Nunnally Johnson
    • Nevil Shute(novel)
  • Stars
    • Monty Woolley
    • Roddy McDowall
    • Anne Baxter
    • Irving Pichel
    • Nunnally Johnson
    • Nevil Shute(novel)
  • Stars
    • Monty Woolley
    • Roddy McDowall
    • Anne Baxter
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 12User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Nominated for 3 Oscars

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    Roddy McDowall and Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall, Rudolph Anders, Marcel Dalio, Peggy Ann Garner, J. Carrol Naish, Merrill Rodin, Maurice Tauzin, Monty Woolley, and Fleurette Zama in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall, Merrill Rodin, Monty Woolley, and Fleurette Zama in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Roddy McDowall, Jill Esmond, Peggy Ann Garner, Monty Woolley, and Fleurette Zama in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, and Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall, Otto Preminger, and Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Roddy McDowall and Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall, and Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall, and Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Anne Baxter in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Anne Baxter and Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
    Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall, Peggy Ann Garner, Merrill Rodin, Maurice Tauzin, and Fleurette Zama in The Pied Piper (1942)

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    Monty Woolley
    Monty Woolley
    • John Sidney Howard
    Roddy McDowall
    Roddy McDowall
    • Ronnie Cavanaugh
    Anne Baxter
    Anne Baxter
    • Nicole Rougeron
    Otto Preminger
    Otto Preminger
    • Major Diessen
    J. Carrol Naish
    J. Carrol Naish
    • Aristide Rougeron
    Lester Matthews
    Lester Matthews
    • Mr. Cavanaugh
    Jill Esmond
    Jill Esmond
    • Mrs. Cavanaugh
    Ferike Boros
    Ferike Boros
    • Madame
    Peggy Ann Garner
    Peggy Ann Garner
    • Sheila Cavanaugh
    Merrill Rodin
    • Willem
    Maurice Tauzin
    Maurice Tauzin
    • Pierre
    Fleurette Zama
    • Rose
    William Edmunds
    • Frenchman
    Marcel Dalio
    Marcel Dalio
    • Focquet
    Marcelle Corday
    Marcelle Corday
    • Madame Bonne
    Odette Myrtil
    Odette Myrtil
    • Madame Rougeron
    Jean Del Val
    Jean Del Val
    • Railroad Official
    Rudolph Anders
    Rudolph Anders
    • Lieutenant
    • (as Robert O.Davis)
      • Irving Pichel
      • Nunnally Johnson
      • Nevil Shute(novel)
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    • Trivia
      The original fairy tale was based on the disappearance of the children of the Dutch - not German - village of Hamelin. Although at the time they were thought to have vanished magically, it is now believed that the children left to join one of the Children's Crusades and were taken into slavery.
    • Goofs
      The seven-year-old German girl near the very end of the movie (at c.1:18 and at c.1:21) speaks German with a distinct American accent.
    • Quotes

      Howard: I have two small children!

      Railroad official: At your age, monsieur, that is undoubtedly magnificent!

    • Connections
      Featured in Minute Movie Masterpieces (1989)

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    9/10
    A World War II exodus story of an old man unwillingly collecting children on the way.
    I read the novel twice many years ago and found it perhaps Nevil Shute's best story, and he wrote many, all outstanding. Still I am tempted to hint at the possibility that the film excels the book, much because of Monty Woolley's rendering of the grumpy old Englishman sick of everything who finds himself stranded in France by the war after Dunkirk and has to accept helping two children to England although he hates children. His long difficult odyssey through war-harried France to somehow reach England with constantly more orphaned children on his hands turns him into another and slightly different man, and the realism depicting this is what makes the film so impressing still today after 70 years for its more than just convincing character. It was made before any of the turning points of the war in 1942 after Pearl Harbour and the fall of Singapore while the Germans were still pounding Moscow and besieging Leningrad, in brief, when the war was at its grimmest. Nevil Shute's story is about humanity in the depth of the despair of this world crisis, which the film admirably conveys, underlining the realism. Monty Woolley, however, is finally matched by Otto Preminger as the German officer, who represents the final conversion to humanity and couldn't make it better as a perfectly brutal and revolting officer who finally has to fall to his own humanity. It's one of the greatest stories told from the second world war, and the film honours it. Strange though that this very important and wonderful film should be so hard to find on internet. A remake was made for TV in 1989 with Peter O'Toole which also pays credit to the story, such a story can only be told well, but that film can't be found at all.
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    • Release date
      • August 21, 1942 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • French
      • German
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      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
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      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • 1 hour 27 minutes
      • Black and White

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