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The Music Man
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Morton DaCosta
Casts & Crew
Robert Preston
Shirley Jones
Buddy Hackett
Ron Howard
Hermione Gingold
Paul Ford
Pert Kelton
Timmy Everett
Susan Luckey
Peggy Mondo
Harry Hickox
Jesslyn Fax
Mary Wickes
Monique Vermont
Charles Lane
William Fawcett
Barbara Pepper
Max Showalter
Hank Worden
Sarah Seegar
Milton Parsons
Larri Thomas
Colin Kenny
Ronnie Dapo
Also Directed by Morton DaCosta
Ten-year-old orphan Patrick Dennis has come to live with his marvelously madcap Auntie Mame, who lives life to the hilt. "Life is a banquet," Mame says, "and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.