1972 : The Pied Piper
90 minutes Filmed: Summer 1971 Released: May 1972 (U.S.) December 1972 (U.K.)
(Jack as Gavin, after the execution)
Sagittarius Productions Inc present a Goodtimes Enterprises Film
Director: Jacques Demy
Writers: Andrew Birkin, Jacques Demy, Mark Peploe
Producers: David Puttnam, Sanford Lieberson
Music composed and sung by: Donovan
Music arranged and conducted: Kenneth Clayton
Director of Photography: Peter Suschitzky
Associate Producer: Gavrik Losey
Editor: John Trumper
Production Designer: Assheton Gorton
Donovan (Piper), Michael Hordern (Melius), Jack Wild (Gavin), Donald Pleasence (Baron), John Hurt (Franz), Cathryn Harrison (Lisa), Roy Kinnear (Burgomaster Poppendick), Diana Dors (Frau Poppendick), Peter Vaughan (Bishop), Keith Buckley (Mattio), Peter Eyre (Pilgrim), John Welsh (Chancellor), Hamilton Dyce (Papal Nuncio), Arthur Hewlett (Otto), Andre Van Gyseghem (Friar), Patsy Puttnam (Helga), Paul Hennen (Karl), Gertan Klauber (Town Cryer), David Netheim (Kulik), Mary McLeod (Maidservant), John Falconer and Clive Elliott (Priests), David Leland (Officer), Roger Hammond, Edwin Brown, George Cormack and Michael Goldie (Burgers), Sammie Winmill (Gretel),
Jacques Demy directed this distinctive version of the Grimm fairytale, with a sombre emphasis on the Black Death and religious persecution. A superb British cast filmed much of the picture in the atmospheric medieval setting of Rothenberg ob der Tauber in Germany. A unique twist was the casting of singer-songwriter Donovan in the title role: he provided a haunting soundtrack. Jack played the young apprentice to the ill-fated old alchemist, played by Michael Hordern.
