 |
|
Release Date: 1962 Cast: Ron Howard, Pert Kelton, Peggy Mondo, Shirley Jones, Monique Vermont, Hermione Gingold, Buddy Hackett, Timmy Everett, Jesslyn Fax, Paul Ford, Robert Preston, Adnia Rice ...MORE
Cast: Ron Howard, Pert Kelton, Peggy Mondo, Shirley Jones, Monique Vermont, Hermione Gingold, Buddy Hackett, Timmy Everett, Jesslyn Fax, Paul Ford, Robert Preston, Adnia Rice, Susan Luckey, Charles Lane, Harry Hickox, Mary Wickes, Sara Seegar ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Comedy, Musical, Family Film, Romance Film The Music Man is a 1962 musical film starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name by Meredith Willson. The film was one of the biggest hits of the year and highly acclaimed critically.
In 2005, The Music Man was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Set in July 1912, a traveling salesman, "Professor" Harold Hill (Robert Preston), arrives in fictional location of River City,... MORE
The Music Man is a 1962 musical film starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name by Meredith Willson. The film was one of the biggest hits of the year and highly acclaimed critically.
In 2005, The Music Man was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Set in July 1912, a traveling salesman, "Professor" Harold Hill (Robert Preston), arrives in fictional location of River City, Iowa, intrigued by the challenge of swindling the famously stubborn natives of Iowa ("Iowa Stubborn"). Masquerading as a traveling band instructor, Professor Hill plans to con the citizens of River City into paying him to create a boys' marching band, including instruments, uniforms, and music instruction. Once he has collected the money and the instruments and uniforms have arrived, he will hop the next train out of town leaving them without their money or a band.
With help from his associate Marcellus Washburn (Buddy Hackett), who is now living in River City and is the only one who knows Hill's LESS
|
Comments About The Music Man