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The Music Man (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]
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Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s): Robert Preston Shirley Jones Buddy Hackett Hermione Gingold Paul Ford Creators: Robert Burks (Cinematographer) Morton DaCosta (Producer) William H. Ziegler (Editor) Joel Freeman (Producer) Franklin Lacey (Writer) Marion Hargrove (Writer) Meredith Willson (Writer) Director(s): Morton DaCosta
Recording label: Warner Home Video EAN: 9780790738086Binding: VHS TapeISBN: 0790738082Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC, Release Date: 2000-09-19Universal product code (UPC): 085391676935Number of discs: 1Audience rating: G (General Audience)Amazon.com 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. Robert Preston made his musical debut--both live and on film--as "Professor" Harold Hill, the upbeat charlatan who promises to teach a small-town boys band by the "think system." But it's the part Preston was born to play and the one for which he will always be best remembered. 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. The boy himself is an adorable Ron Howard, lisp-singing "Gary, Indiana." Willson's entire score, featuring a combination of what are now standards, such as "Goodnight My Someone" and "Till There Was You" and show-specific numbers ("Trouble," "76 Trombones"), is never less than infectious. This dazzling special edition is also as bright and sunny as any 4th of July in Iowa could ever hope to be. --Robert Windeler
Running time: 151 minutesLanguage: English (Unknown)
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