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"An energetic con artist convinces the citizens of a small turn-of-the-century community to form a boy's band - which he plans to lead. This classic Hollywood musical features such hits as "76 Trombones," "Ya Got Trouble," and many more. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: Best Adapted Score."@en
"An energetic con artist convinces the citizens of a small turn-of-the-century community to form a boy's band - which he plans to lead. This classic Hollywood musical features such hits as "76 Trombones," "Ya Got Trouble," and many more. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: Best Adapted Score."
""Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, Iowa in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration and promises that he can teach the town's boys to play in a marching band."
"Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching band, then skip town with the money since he has no music skill anyway. Things go awry when he falls for a librarian he tries to divert from exposing him while he inadvertently enriches the town with a love of music."
""'Professor' Harold Hill, a fast-talking traveling salesman, schemes to take money from the citizens of River City, Iowa, in the summer of 1912, by convincing them that a boys' band will put an end to the moral corruption resulting from the presence of a pool hall in the community. He sells instruments and uniforms to River City parents with the understanding that he will organize a band and teach the children to play; however, he intends to abscond with the money before the arrival of the instruments. Assisted by Marcellus Washburn, the town stableboy who helped Harold defraud customers in the East, Harold convinces the stubborn Iowa townspeople that he is an accomplished musician with a degree from a conservatory in Gary, Indiana. Marian Paroo, the piano teacher and librarian, uncovers evidence of his trumped-up credentials; but before she can tell Mayor Shinn, the owner of the pool hall, Harold charms her into believing he has developed the 'think system' of learning to play musical instruments by humming Mozart's Minuet in G. Harold's influence transforms the quarreling school board into a harmonizing barbershop quartet, petty gossips into a ladies' dance committee, shy and lisping Winthrop Paroo into a happy child with dreams of playing in a band, and the high-strung 'old maid' Marian into a young woman in love. The instruments and uniforms arrive, but Marcellus cannot convince Harold to leave town. On the evening."
"Traveling salesman, Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston) hoodwinks the credulous townfolk of River City, Iowa, into organizing a boys' band so he can sell them nonexistent band instruments, then tries to skip town before his chicanery is unmasked by the suspicious and lovely town librarian."
"Meredith Willson's Broadway play is brought to the screen in this musical featuring Preston as Professor Harold Hill, a con artist whose schemes are unmasked by the lovely librarian, Marian (Jones)."
"Meredith Willson's Broadway play is brought to the screen in this musical featuring Preston as Professor Harold Hill, a con artist whose schemes are unmasked by the lovely librarian, Marian (Jones)."@en
"Professor Harold Hill, a con artist, falls for the lovely librarian who unmasks his schemes. Includes a short documentary on the making of the film."@en
"A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall. Special features include: 'Right Here in River City' Documentary and Introduction by Shirley Jones."
""Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, IA, in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration. Persuading the town that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted, Hill convinces them that their need to organization a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." There's only one problem: the professor doesn't know one note from another."@en
"The town of River City, Iowa is conned into organizing a boys band, so a crooked professor can sell them nonexistent musical instruments."
"A hit Broadway musical in 1957 and an equally successful Hollywood film in 1962, Meredith Willson's The Music Man was again brought before the cameras in this lavish made-for-TV adaptation. Standing in for the original's Robert Preston is Matthew Broderick as "Professor" Harold Hill, a glib traveling salesman who descends upon the town of River City, IA, in the weeks just prior to the Fourth of July celebration of 1912. Persuading the populace that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted by the presence of a new pool table, Hill convinces them that their only hope for salvation is the organization of a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Naturally, this will require the parents to shell out good money for band instruments and uniforms, and in exchange, Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." There's only one problem: Harold Hill is an out-and-out con artist, who doesn't know one note from another. Even so, he manages to win over everybody in town except local librarian/music teacher Marian Paroo (Kristin Chenoweth) and thick-eared Mayor Shinn (Victor Garber). Ultimately, however, Marian joins Hill's camp mainly because he has brought her sullen brother, Winthrop (Cameron Monaghan), out of his shell but as July Fourth approaches, Hill faces exposure and arrest thanks to a vengeful anvil salesman named Charlie Cowell (Patrick McKenna). A meticulously faithful rendition of the Broadway original, The Music Man happily includes all of the show's wonderful songs, among them "Ya Got Trouble," "Seventy-Six Trombones," "The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl," "Lida Rose," "Marian the Librarian," "Pickalittle," "Til There Was You," and "My White Knight" (which was not used in the 1962 movie adaptation). Though some critics found Matthew Broderick a bit too lightweight and Jeff Bleckner's direction a tad gimmicky, no one could fault the full-bodied vocal renditions, nor the consistently inventive choreography of Kathleen Marshall. Produced by the same team responsible for the 2003 movie smash Chicago, The Music Man debuted February 16, 2003, as an "expanded" episode of ABC's Wonderful World of Disney anthology."@en
"A silver-tongued con artist cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying musical instruments and uniforms, but his chichanery is unmasked by a lovely librarian."@en
"A silver-tongued con artist cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying musical instruments and uniforms, but his chichanery is unmasked by a lovely librarian."
"A con artist convinces the residents of a small town to form a boy's band, which he plans to lead."
"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."@en
"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."
""The classic Meredith Willson musical about a con-man literally taking over a small but colorful Southern town and romancing its librarian."--Video Source Book."@en
"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."
"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."@en
"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."@en
"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 backfires."@en
""Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, IA, in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration. Persuading the town that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted, Hill convinces them that they need to organize a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." There's only one problem: the professor doesn't know one note from another."@en
"A silver-tongued con artist cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying musical instruments and uniforms, but his chicanery is unmasked by a lovely librarian."@en
"A silver-tongued swindler cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying expensive musical instruments and uniforms for a planned boys' marching band. His scam is complicated by his feelings for the local librarian, who is also the only person in town who knows anything about music."@en
"Robert Preston recreates his Tony-winning Broadway triumph as con artist Harold HIll, arriving in River City, Iowa, to form a boys band, much to the disapproval. and later delight of town librarian Marian Paroo (Academy Award winner Shirley Jones)."@en