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Bookmark this pageThe Music Man (1962)
Director: Morton Da Costa
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From Time Out Film Guide
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 by convincing the inhabitants they need a uniformed brass band, with himself on expenses. Zestily performed and choreographed, beautifully shot by Robert Burks, full of standards like '76 Trombones' and 'Till There Was You', and endowed with a warming nostalgia for old-fashioned ways.Author: GA
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- LindaJ said...
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Posted on Nov 24 2011 19:06
Loved it then, love it now! Music is uplifting and dialog holds up as long as you remember the era in which the movie takes place. I think all the actors did a great job,
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- CharlieX said...
- Posted on Aug 08 2011 04:25 Some films, like Wizard of Oz, age beautifully. Not this one. The movie doesn't move out of its Broadway shell and hardly seems a movie. Perhaps this won't bother fans of Broadway musicsls, but film buffs? Things seem so dated; the background cast and costumes come across as so provincial and dated. And Marion falls so easily, in the end, for the huckster, with the help of the director's use of defocusing the camera to connote her altered state (ick). While a couple tunes are memorable, others are just irrelevant place-holders that make you wonder why they exist.
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Cast & crew
Director: Morton Da Costa
Producer: Morton Da Costa
Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Pert Kelton, Paul Ford, Timmy Everett, Susan Lucky, Ron Howard, Harry Hickox full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 151 mins
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