Where to Watch The Pied Piper of Basin Street (1945)

Want to behold the glory that is 'The Pied Piper of Basin Street' on your TV or mobile device at home? Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Shamus Culhane-directed movie via subscription can be difficult, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting.

We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'The Pied Piper of Basin Street' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'The Pied Piper of Basin Street' right now, here are some finer points about the Walter Lantz Productions animation flick.

Released January 15th, 1945, 'The Pied Piper of Basin Street' stars Harry Lang, GeGe Pearson, Dick Nelson The movie has a runtime of about 7 min, and received a user score of 62 (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from 4 well-known users.

Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "In this swing version of the famous tale, a small town is overrun with rats. The mayor (caricature of Lou Costello) is in a quandary. His phones are busy with demands to do something. He hears a voice say: "what you need is a Pied Piper." Looking up, he sees a young man with a trombone (Jimmy Durante) who claims that he can run every rat out of town for a fee. The mayor makes a deal with him, and the trombone player goes to work leading the rats out of town with the playing of his trombone, and he locks them in a cage. Returning to the mayor's office, he's handed a bag of peanuts and thrown out. Unable to get the reward promised, the Pied Piper puts on his "Hank Swoonatra" (Frank Sinatra) suit croons to the girls. He leads them aboard a swinging showboat and opens the cage full of rats and they return to town, where only the mayor is left. The rats swarm the mayor's office and give him a bad time for his treatment of the pied piper. Production Number: D-10 A Swing Symphony cartoon." .