The Music Man (1962)

Directors

Morton DaCosta

Cast

Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Hermione Gingold, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard

The story

In July, 1912, con man Professor Harold Hill arrives in fictional River City, Iowa, to swindle the citizens. A few traveling salesmen in the area have heard about Hill, who is known for a ploy in which he gets townspeople to pay to create boys' marching bands, with Hill faking his musical expertise and skipping town once he has their money. Hill discovers that River City is the home of his former associate Marcellus Washburn; with Marcellus's help, Hill incites a moral panic among River City's parents that their boys are being seduced into sin by the town's new pool table.

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