The Music Man was one of the last great movie musicals from any studio, and it proved to be that rarest of events: a Broadway show that was measurably improved by its transition to the screen. Composer Meredith Willson based The Music Man on his own small-town Midwestern boyhood, circa 1912, a quasi-mythical place where the old-maid librarian looks and sings like Shirley Jones. summarized from Amazon.com [reviews|asin=]
Producer and director, Morton Da Costa ; music, Meredith Willson ; screenplay, Marion Hargrove.
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard.
Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy’s band, but his game ultimately–and romantically–backfires.
VHS.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
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Right here in River City: the making of the Music Man
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