Directed by:
Morton DaCostaScreenplay:
Marion HargroveCinematography:
Robert BurksCast:
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton, Susan Luckey, Ron Howard, Max Showalter, Mary Wickes, Natalie Masters (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
Professor Harold Hill, a travelling salesman, makes his living by duping small towns into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' marching band. Hill sells parents on the idea by promising to teach the boys how to play, but as soon as they hand over their money, he skips out. His latest stop is River City, Iowa, where he soon has the locals up in arms over the threat to public morals posed by the neighborhood pool hall; how better to save their sons' souls than by creating a boys' band? Only one thing stands between Hill and success: the town's pretty but skeptical librarian, who threatens to expose his schemes -- if she doesn't declare her love for him first. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jesslyn Fax
Canada
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
North by Northwest (1959)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
![Charles Lane](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/208/160208646_292f65.gif)
Charles Lane
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
![Fred Aldrich](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/260/160260239_2c735f.jpg)
Fred Aldrich
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
![Elaine Joyce](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/331/160331712_f46617.jpg)
Elaine Joyce
USA
Best movies:
Funny Girl (1968)
Lost Flight (1970) (TV movie)
The Music Man (1962)
![Barbara Pepper](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/204/160204222_858cca.jpg)
Barbara Pepper
USA
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
A Child Is Waiting (1963)
![Sailor Vincent](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/026/161026394_34897c.jpg)
Sailor Vincent
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
East of Eden (1955)
Scott Seaton
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
![Jack Perrin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/507/507483_86acf4.jpg)
Jack Perrin
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Peggy Wynne
Best movies:
Caged (1950)
The Music Man (1962)
Superman (1948)
Harry Hickox
USA
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
The Split (1968)
Emperor of the North (1973)
Joe Phillips
USA
Best movies:
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1968)
![Noble 'Kid' Chissell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/785/161785386_718568.jpg)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Anne Loos
USA
Best movies:
Pushover (1954)
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Never Say Goodbye (1956)
Russell Custer
USA
Best movies:
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Storm Warning (1951)
Mathew McCue
USA
Best movies:
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
All About Eve (1950)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Natalie Core
USA
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
Delos Jewkes
USA
Best movies:
San Francisco (1936)
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Rose-Marie (1936)
Charles Alvin Bell
USA
Best movies:
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
The Music Man (1962)
Jack Henderson
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Home from the Hill (1960)
Peggy Mondo
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
The Music Man (1962)