The Music Man (BD)

The Music Man (BD)This joyful film of the 1,375 performance Broadway smash remains an irresistible skyburst of Americana. Robert Preston recreates his Tony winning Broadway triumph as con artist Harold Hill, arriving in River City, Iowa, to form a boys band, much to the disapproval and later delight of town librarian Marian Paroo (Academy Award winner* Shirley Jones). Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford and 7 year old Ron Howard co star. Meredith Willson's

Edward Arnold

John Sturges (The Great Escape) directs this tale of Johnny (Ricardo Montalban) and the people in his orbit: his veteran promoter (Lionel Barrymore)

Senator George Murphy portrays Demming in a backstager drawn from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May and co-starring Ginny Simms as the actress in Demming's sights

opens a bricked-up fireplace - and unleashes a horde of hideous

while young scientist Julius steadfastly researches the asexual reproduction of worms

20-Episode collection sees Bronco's Civil War espionage exploits come back to haunt him

A torrent of talent takes the screen in the first all-star Talkie Era showcase of heretofore silent-screen players

But two intrepid friends - one Navajo

George Raft and Pat O'Brien star as a partners who own a bail bond company--an enterprise that can be very lucrative

more pistol-packin' outlaws take aim in Best of the Badmen

etches another superb working-class portrait

And The Varsity Drag and Best Song Oscar® nominee Pass That Peace Pipe stand out among the numbers that are all zip and joy