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The Music Man (Special Edition)
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Let 76 trombones lead the big parade from the Great White Way into your home. It's the Music Man, the screen version of one of Broadway's all-time blockbusters, a skyburst of Americana as irresistible as 4th of July fireworks. Robert Preston and Shirley J Year: 1962
User Submitted The Music Man (Special Edition) Reviews
March 17, 2010
Great Musical!
In a timer of worries and woes, keep this DVD handy, play it, sing along, and your troubles, yes, I mean lots ands lots of troubles, will fade away!
March 7, 2010
Great memories good entertainment
I am old enough, alas, to remember the original movie and young enough at heart to appreciate blue-ray technology, so actually I enjoyed this movie very much. It is a set piece, a very restricted musical, but it is still fun. I don't think there is another movie quite like it. The costuming and sets look really good on our large screen TV. The musical itself is a glimpse of a past farther back--the 1900s--than the glimpse of the past--1962--served up with 2010 technology. Cool.
February 11, 2010
WHEN HOLLYWOOD GETS IT RIGHT...
...They really get it right. Such is the case with the filmed version of "The Music Man". This film is simply irresistable! The music, the performances -all first rate and perfect casting throughout, the gorgeous color cinematography, the costumes, the production design. I could go on and on. If you've never seen this film or only seen it in pan and scan television broadcasts, you owe it to yourself to see this gem! Everyone agrees that Robert Preston was born to play this part. LIke Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady", it is difficult to imagine anyone else in the role. Shirley Jones is absolutely stunning! She has never looked lovelier before or since. Her voice is a miracle. I place her voice in the top five greatest female voices of all time. Wonderful film!
February 10, 2010
The Music Man
Bought the music and video as my granddaughter is appearing in her school play of the Music Man. Need the music for practice purposes. Video gave idea as to character acting. the delivery timing was fast and efficient. Thank you for such good service.
February 4, 2010
Blu-Ray - so good and yet so bad...
The previous DVD releases of The Music Man were basically OK in terms of sound, color, brightness, and contrast. But MY! Did they ever mess up the picture with edge enhancement! I don't mean just a little ghost line to the right, but also to the left. At times, the "enhancement" made it difficult to make out facial details on a large-screen TV. My guess is that it was transferred using a 19" monitor from a distance of a couple of feet, where the enhancement wouldn't be as noticeable.
Fortunately all this video gunk is corrected in teh Blu-Ray addition. The colors are bright, the sound noticeable better, and the movie just comes more alive in blu-ray.
But - there always seems to be a flip side. In this case it's noticeable in the opening train scene, where blue edges to people and slightly off masking at the windows clearly shows that it was shot against a blue screen. But, what you see is what people saw in the theaters when it was released. If the artifacts didn't bother moviegoers at the time, they shouldn't really bother us in the present. Little glitches like this are just part of the technology available at the time, and shouldn't be used to rate the movie...
...and I'm really not, just pointing out that seeing more can mean seeing more of the bad, as well as more than the good.
Aside from little things like this which caught my eye - and don't really bother me - I hope you'll consider picking up the best release of an old favorite. Improved sound, improved picture - what more could you want. I doubt it'll look better unless George Lucas gets involved in cleaning up the blue-screen artifacts. And who knows what he'd feel like adding!
Fun. A couple of hours well spent. And for me, a new appreciation of Hermione Gingold as Ms. Eulalie Shinn. Her looks and voice in "Pick a little" really steal the show, as she does in other scenes she's in.
It's hard not to enjoy such a high-spirited musical as this, end even harder not to like it in Blu-Ray. A real gem.
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