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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: June 19, 1962 |
Starring:
Al Shea, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton, Robert Preston, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, The Buffalo Bills, Vern Reed
Summary:
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.
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Arguably one of the best translations to film of any Broadway musical. [15 Nov 1991, p.F26]
Robert Preston unforgettably reprises his greatest stage role in this old-fashioned musical that challenged West Side Story on Broadway and proved quite as popular. [13 Nov 2005, p.87]
DaCosta's musical is one of the most exuberant and purely enjoyable of the lot. Much of this is down to the infectious energy of Robert Preston, reprising his stage role as smooth-talking conman. [12 Nov 2005, p.53]
Allowing something of slowness at the very start and the necessities of establishing the musical way of telling a story, plus the atmosphere of Iowa in 1912, that's about the only criticism of an otherwise building, punching, handsomely dressed and ultimately endearing super-musical.
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