thejcowboy22 Review of The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper (1942)

This Movie is Dedicated to the Great State of Rochester!!

[7/10 · 28 July 2016]

Our leading Man John Sidney Howard(Monty Wooley) is on Holiday in 1940 Eastern France. Stout,old and has no patience for children. All he wants is peace and quiet on his fishing trip. Obviously Howard is not up to snuff about Nazi invasions and the Maginut Line. No wonder the fares to France were so cheap with War eminent in Europe. Any way our frustrated fisherman runs into stray children through out this heart warming film.Including a very young Roddy McDowall. Pretending to be a mute elderly Frenchman, and hoping no one hears him speaking English or he will be turned in to the Gestapo. Wooley takes refuge but with constant house checks by the authorities it's only a matter of time his group will be captured. Will our Pied Piper of occupied France escape to England with his new found children or will he be stuck in Gestapo headquarters or taken away to a concentration camp? Dicey situation as Howard locks horns with the Nazi officers telling them he's no spy. Just on holiday for a fishing trip. Makes for warm ending with an inquisitive Major Diessen (Otto Preminger) asking the questions about fishing equipment. Then out of no where our stern Major asks,"Do you know a place called Rochester in America? It's in upstate New York." Major Diessen shifts from interrogator to concerned parent. He wants his Daughter to get out of war torn Europe and live with his relatives in America just in case the European theater falls against the Third Reich.Howard's dilemma draws you into the story and his chemistry between the children makes it an endearing movie that warms your heart. Watch this with your children.