Film · Warner Bros. · 1962
Pass it on
The Music Man
55Watch it awake.
The lie is the plot. The repair is that the town needed the music more than it needed the truth first.
The review
He sells a boys' band to a stubborn Iowa town, and he cannot read a note. The librarian can see the trick and has a little brother the town has already decided is not worth teaching. The songs are a pleasure I will not fake a frown at. The pleasure is also the con. Parents hand over money for uniforms and instruments that are not coming as promised. That is a theft, even when the thief has a good tenor.
What keeps me from leaving it is the boy and the last minutes, when the thing he pretended turns out to be what the town actually needed, and he stays to be it. The repair is sentimental. It is also about a child who was going to be left on the porch. Watch it with the house. Say the theft was a theft before you sing. Then ask whether your own town is starving for a band more than it is starving for another salesman.
Journal
Keep The Music Man in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Mary Poppins
69 instead of 55
Mary Poppins is still a musical film, and it scores 69 instead of 55. What you gain is household: The children are the point of the house, and the film does not trade them for a career.
The eight
- 6Industry
He works the con with craft, and she works the library with a real devotion.
- 6Household
A widow and her shy boy are the household the con collides with, and they matter.
- 4Piety
The reverence is thin, except that a boy is not a mark she is willing to spend.
- 5Courage
She risks the town's opinion. He risks staying, which is new for him.
- 6Republic
A town is the public. The debt he racks up is to every parent who paid.
- 5Temperance
The charm is excessive and the film knows it is charm, until the last reel believes it.
- 5Truth
The instruments do not arrive as promised. The film lets the lie be a lie, then softens it.
- 7Stewardship
A boy with a horn is a better inheritance than a salesman's smile, and the film agrees.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · The Music Man · 55IMDb tt0056262
