The Music Man

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Jeffrey L 1d Brilliant, funny, witty, one of a kind AND.. all sorts of great music See more Russ G 03/12/2024 Wake me up when the remake, showing Harold Hill in handcuffs, being thrown in prison for FRAUD, is released. You can keep this hokey, over-long, and quite preposterous musical. Just as "Oklahoma" allowed self-styled New York sophisticates to look down their noses at Oklahomans, this movie gives them the same smug satisfaction over Iowans. See more Alec B 11/10/2023 While it's often associated with sub par high school and community theatre productions, "The Music Man" can work really well if it's done right and this film adaption is the best example of that. It's success is probably due to the fact that just about everyone who crafted the original Broadway productions worked on it. Although the most important element was keeping Robert Preston as the lead (like Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire", its the perfect marriage between performer and role) because no one else could have and still hasn't played this part so well. See more Zazoo909 C 07/09/2023 Hadn't seen "The Music Man" in decades. Even though the music lingers with you forever, I guess I avoided revisiting it because of the images of a pure-hearted America that either never existed or faded out before my time. But I just saw it again and I have to put it up there: Number Two, after my favorite musical of all time, Fiddler on the Roof. This is not the edification of small town values and the American innocence that I remembered. In fact, it satirizes that, while also satirizing the shameless shenanigans of huckster, Prof. Harold Hill. The humor here is gloriously subversive and no one escapes getting skewered. The songs are great, but none so ingenious or infectious as "Ya Got Trouble," where Hill hilariously scams the yokels: "Ya got trouble, that starts with t, that rhymes with p, that stands for pool!" See more Paully 07/05/2023 None better.. Shirley Jones is 24 when this was filmed.. Wow on her performance.. See more 05/15/2022 Overly long and corny AF. I'd like to see a dramatic remake with Harold Hill doing hard time for fraud on a scale that rivals Bernie Madoff. The studio sure threw money at the production, though! See more Read all reviews

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