The Pied Piper
1942

The Essentials
WHO: WHAT:
Ronnie Cavanaugh Monty Woolley leads a group of children on the run from Nazis.
WHY:
Surprisingly good fun, and a splendid juvenile role for our hero.

Technical Details
Roddy McDowall with Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper Director: Irving Pichel

Writer: Nunnally Johnson, based on novel by Nevil Shute

Production: 20CF

Cast: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J. Carrol Naish, Lester Matthews, Jill Esmond, Ferike Boros, Peggy Ann Garner, Merrill Rodin, Maurice Tauzin, Fleuerette Zama, William Edmunds, Marcel Dalio, Edward Ashley, Morton Lowry, Marcelle Corday, Odette Myrtil, Jean Del Val, Robert O. Davis, Henry Rowland, Helmut Dantine, George Davis

Running time: 86 m.

Revue: The New York Herald-Tribune found RM "excellent as the tyke who gets under the old man's skin and inspires him to evacuate a whole brood of refugees."

OVERALL
RATING:		 McDOWALLISM:
7
of 10		 7
of 10

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