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Charlie says that Hill is a con man who promises to form boys' marching bands, then skips town after taking payments for instruments and uniforms. Upon the train's arrival in River City, Iowa, a passenger leaves the train with a suitcase labeled "Professor Harold Hill".
- Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey, Abba Bogin
- 1983
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THERE is nothing more disarming than the gentle form of flattery that suggests our children have some unsuspected artistic talent. It is this flattery which Harold Hill (a virile baritone) employs; so cleverly that his confidence trick of posing as a Professor of Music claiming to teach boys how to play military band instruments over-night, succeed...
Professor Harold Hill has developed a reputation among travelling salesmen and none of it good. In order to sell his band instruments and uniforms he promises to form a local student band. After he gets paid it's away - and - no band. He is concentrating this time on River City, Iowa. To focus attention on the need for a boys' band he attacks the t...
Rock IslandIowa StubbornTroublePiano Lesson29 roles, 14 principals, including 2 children, and an authentic barber-shop quartet. 6 to 10 children. Large singing and dancing ensembles. Total cast, 40-60.
Harold plays along, but as he does he realizes that he loves her as well. They are interrupted by Marcellus, who tells him about Charlie Cowell, the salesman who's been spreading rumors about him all over town. Harold promises him that he'll flee as soon as possible.
Charlie Cowell: Don't believe I caught your name. Harold Hill: Don't believe I dropped it.
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.
One of the salesmen, Charlie Cowell, asks if anyone has heard of Professor Harold Hill, a salesman who is ruining the reputation of all traveling salesmen. Cowell explains that Hill moves from town to town, selling musical instruments, uniforms and the promise of lessons for a boy's band... and then leaves town with the collected money before ...
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But first, Charlie Cowell (Harry Hickox), an anvil salesman, shows up at the Paroo residence. (He had been one of the salesmen speaking about Hill's nefarious dealings in the train scene at the very start of the movie.) He has extensive written documentation of Harold Hill's fraudulent methods, and he wants to give it to Mayor Shinn.
