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The Music Man-1962. Director Morton DaCosta. Starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones. Scott’s Review #929. Reviewed August 9, 2019. Grade: A. The big-screen offering of The Music Man (1962) is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, written by Meredith Wilson, and one of the most upbeat and jovial of all the Hollywood renditions of stage productions.
The Music Man: Directed by Morton DaCosta. With Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold. Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.
- Morton Dacosta
- 55 sec
Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston) is a legendary traveling salesman con-man who takes on the challenge of reserved River City, Iowa. He sells musical instruments after convincing a town of the need of a marching band. He skips town with the money since he can't distinguish one note from another anyways.
The Music Man is a 1962 American musical film directed and produced by Morton DaCosta, based on Meredith Willson 's 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which DaCosta also directed. Robert Preston reprises the title role from the stage version, starring alongside Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Ronny Howard, and Paul Ford .
Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 22, 2010. The music is glorious, but as a movie, this is a photographed play, a nostalgic evocation of small-town American that was congruent with Kennedy ...
Sep 10, 2012 · Overlong but generally faithful and entertaining screen version of Meredith Willson 's Broadway hit, with Preston in fine form as the con-man whose bogus music professor enlivens a small Iowa town ...
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The Music Man Allowing something of slowness at the very start and the necessities of establishing the musical way of telling a story, plus the atmosphere of Iowa in 1912, that's about the only ...
