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- Professor Harold Hill (Matthew Broderick) is a con artist who runs a very particular scam. With the help of his partner in crime, Marcellus Washburn (David Aaron Baker), Hill travels to small towns, convinces the townsfolk they need a marching band, collects money for instruments and uniforms, then splits with the cash.
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In 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.
The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naïve Midwestern townsfolk, promising to train the members of the new band. Harold is no musician, however, and plans to skip town without giving any music lessons.
- Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey, Abba Bogin
- 1983
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- Role in The Music Man
Harold Hill, a dishonest traveling salesman, is the main character in The Music Man.
Harold Hill travels on a train to River City, Iowa, among other salesmen who are talking about him and his tricks. Upon arriving, he reveals himself to the salesmen before getting off the train quickly.
The people in River City show Harold their stubborn attitude when he arrives in the small town. He eventually runs into an old friend, Marcellus Washburn, and Marcellus describes the town and its people, specifically a piano teacher and librarian named Marian Paroo. Harold looks for a way to stir up a need for a band in River City, and when he learns that the town recently purchased a new pool table he warns the townspeople about the trouble that it brings to the youth in town. This causes the chaos he had hoped for.
He spots Marian in the crowd of people and attempts to follow her home, but is met with stubbornness and ignored.
The next day, during the Independence Day activities held in the Madison Gymnasium due to the rain, Harold stirs up the crowd once again about the new pool table and uses this as his opportunity to tell them about his "business". He describes the glory that having a boys' band in town would bring. He also attempts to gain trust by sending Tommy Djilas, a troublemaking boy, off with Zaneeta Shinn, the mayor's daughter.
The school board approach Harold in order to get his credentials, but he forms them into a barbershop quartet and manages to distract them. Marian continues to ignore Harold, despite his attempts to make her pay attention. He inquires some of the town's most avid gossipers about her, and hears a false rumor that Marian had an affair with Miser Madison, who gave the town its library. He again distracts the school board from his credentials by helping them start to sing.
Harold travels to the library and tries to make her pay attention to him, and almost succeeds, but when he kisses her she tries to slap him.
The Music Man: Directed by Morton DaCosta. With Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold. 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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- Comedy, Family, Musical
- Morton DaCosta
- 1962-06-19
Harold Hill : Mothers of River City, heed that warning before it's too late! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption!
Ron Howard. Plot – Harold Hill is a swindler who arrives in the grim River City with the purpose of deceiving the community, pretending to coordinate a band of young adults and running away with the money. Things get worse when he falls in love with a girl who works in the library.
Oct 1, 2024 · Robert Preston was a versatile American actor best known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man on the Broadway stage in 1957 and in the 1962 film. The son of a minor-league baseball player, Preston attended school in Hollywood, Calif., but quit at the age of 16 to become an actor.
