The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957 TV Movie)

Van Johnson: Pied Piper, Truson

Quotes 

• Mayor of Hamelin : You have an invention?

  Pied Piper : I attract attention/ Chiefly with a secret charm/ On creatures that do people harm;/ The mole, the toad, the newt and viper./

  [Chuckles] 

  Pied Piper : Who doesn't know of the Pied Piper?

• Truson : [he hears the Piper's music, but Mara can't]  Listen! The music of the Piper!

  Mara : No, Truson, he's gone!

  Truson : Yes, gone... and our honor with him, that's what I fear.

  Mara : What the Piper will do to us?

  Truson : No... what we've done to ourselves.

• Pied Piper : A man who's unwise only sees things with his eyes.

• Pied Piper : [speaking of the plague of rats]  Leaders of virtue; character builders, / To rid your town of this verminous pox, / My fee is fifty thousand guilders.

  First Counselor : Fifty thousand guilders?

  Second Counselor : You've lost your mind!

• Pied Piper : As a rule / I refrain from calling any man a fool. Heed me now. / I'll wait until yon clock strikes the hour. / Don't let me go away / Without my pay.

• Pied Piper : Maneuvers and manipulations!

  Mayor of Hamelin : How dare you, sir! In all your dealings / To prevent your feelings / We require a legal form. / 'Tis no departure from the norm.

• Mayor of Hamelin : What would you do with such a sum?

  Pied Piper : Have fun!

• Pied Piper : A man can strive for riches, a natural desire; but he mustn't overlook a greater goal. Or what will he profit by something he'll acquire, if in finding what he gains he lose his soul?