Greed, 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.
Donovan
Diana Dors
Donald Pleasence
Roy Kinnear
John Hurt
Michael Hordern
Jack Wild
Peter Vaughan
Keith Buckley
Cathryn Harrison
Peter Eyre
David Leland
Patsy Puttnam
Arthur Hewlett
Paul Hennen
Michael Goldie
André van Gyseghem
John Falconer
Clive Elliot
Sammie Winmill
John Welsh
David Nettheim
Gertan Klauber
Hamilton Dyce
Roger Hammond
Edwin Brown
George Cormack
Mary MacLeod
Harry Fielder
Sacha Puttnam
Fred Wood