Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Music man (Motion picture : 1962)

Title:

The music man [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; music and lyrics by Meredith Willson ; screenplay by Marion Hargrove ; produced and directed by Morton DaCosta.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2010.

Description:

1 videodisc (151 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall. Special features include: 'Right Here in River City' Documentary and Introduction by Shirley Jones.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: G; Canadian home video rating: G.

Subjects:

Band directors -- Iowa -- Drama.

Swindlers and swindling -- Iowa -- Drama.

Love -- Iowa -- Drama.

Musical films.

Film adaptations.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Iowa -- Drama.

Other Author:

Hargrove, Marion, 1919-2003.

DaCosta, Morton, 1914-1989.

Ziegler, William.

Preston, Robert, 1918-1987.

Jones, Shirley, 1934 March 31-

Hackett, Buddy, 1924-2003.

Gingold, Hermione, 1897-1987.

Ford, Paul, 1901-1976.

Howard, Ron, 1954-

Lane, Charles, 1905-2007.

Willson, Meredith, 1902-1984. Music man.

Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Other Title:

Title appears on container as: Meredith Willson's the music man

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.

Disc label states playing time as 176 min.

Special features: Cast & Crew ; featurette Right here in River City: The making of Meredith Willson's The music man, Introduction by Shirley Jones; Theatrical trailer ; Winthrop Paroo.

Director of photography, Robert Burks ; film editor, William Ziegler ; orchestrations by Ray Heindorf, Frank Comstock, Gus Levene ; music supervised and conducted by Ray Heindorf ; choreographer, Onna White.

Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Ronny Howard, Charles Lane.

DVD; dual-layer format; Region 1; Dolby digital surround 5.1; "letterbox" widescreen format.

English dialogue; English or French subtitles. Closed-captioned.

Winner (tie), Best Film - Musical Comedy, 1962 Golden Globes ; Winner, Best Music Adaptation or Treatment (Ray Heindorf), 1962 Academy Awards

ISBN:

0780663888

9780780663886

Publisher Number:

16768

3000033518

Other Number:

759867851

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

1

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

452454

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Music ma

Medium:

[videorecording]