The Music Man (2003)

Actors: Craig Zadan (producer), Neil Meron (producer), Timm Zemanek (actor), Molly Shannon (actress), Victor Garber (actor), Jeff Bleckner (producer), Kristin Chenoweth (actress), Patrick McKenna (actor), Paul Becker (actor), Gerry Quigley (actor), Boyd Banks (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), Matthew Broderick (actor), Jeff Bleckner (director), Linda Kash (actress),

Plot: Contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and 1962 film, updated to reflect a few early twenty-first-century sensibilities: A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results.

Keywords: barbershop-quartet, billiards, con-artist, dance, dancer, dancing, fourth-of-july, iowa, librarian, library
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance,

Quotes:

Professor Harold Hill: That hat... it's scrumptious!

[repeated line]::Mayor Shinn: You watch your phraseology!

Professor Harold Hill: One hour.::Marian Paroo: One hour.::Professor Harold Hill: [walks away]::Mrs. Paroo: [smiles, gasps, and runs inside. Mrs. Paroo gasps and stops eavesdropping]::Marian Paroo: Mother! I just told Professor Hill that I'd meet him at the footbridge in one hour.::Mrs. Paroo: [crosses herself] Glory be, the saints be praised, it works!::Marian Paroo: What does?::Mrs. Paroo: I've been using the think system on you from the parlor!

[regarding Hill's "degree"]::Marian Paroo: You didn't graduate in aught 5.::Professor Harold Hill: Oh, I'm sure if you looked...::Marian Paroo: The school wasn't built until aught 6.

Professor Harold Hill: [sees marian for the first time] Excuse me miss, did you drop your...::Marian Paroo: NO!::Professor Harold Hill: Well havn't I seen you before at the...::Marian Paroo: NO!::Professor Harold Hill: Well, i'll only be in town for a short while and...::Marian Paroo: GOOD!

Constable Locke: You're quite the clever fellow Prof. Hill, but you made a few mistakes though.::Professor Harold Hill: Oh really?::Constable Locke: Yes, you see, the mayor happens to own that billiard parlor, and that new pool table.::Professor Harold Hill: I see, and what's the second mistake I made?::Constable Locke: That Zaneeta. She's the mayor's oldest girl

Professor Harold Hill: You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.

Behind the Scenes: The Music Man (2002)

Actors: Jeff Bleckner (actor), Steve Mulholland (producer), Nancy Bordson (producer), Jeff Bleckner (actor), Molly Shannon (actress), Kent Hodder (producer), Molly Shannon (actress), Paul Becker (actor), Victor Garber (actor), Victor Garber (actor), Matthew Broderick (actor), Kristin Chenoweth (actress), Matthew Broderick (actor), Kristin Chenoweth (actress), Tim VandeSteeg (producer),

Genres: Documentary, Music,

Public Enemies (1996)

Actors: Christopher Franke (composer), C. Courtney Joyner (writer), Barry Barnholtz (producer), Phillip B. Goldfine (producer), Alyssa Milano (actress), Mark L. Lester (producer), Gary Sievers (actor), Frank Stallone (actor), Theresa Russell (actress), Rex Linn (actor), Brian Peck (actor), James Marsden (actor), Eric Roberts (actor), Mark L. Lester (director), Grant Cramer (actor),

Plot: Glorified and glamourized fact-based tale of Ma Barker and her boys who robbed banks and generally terrorized the Midwest in the 1930's and was eventually gunned down by g-man, Melvin Purvis.

Keywords: 1930s, ambush, bank, bank-robbery, bare-breasts, based-on-true-story, blonde, blood, blood-spatter, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: No one could stop them.

Quotes:

Kate "Ma" Barker: You said, "Dead by Christmas." Is that the kind of chance you're talking about?::Melvin Purvis: You can't believe everything you read in the papers. I'm the F.B.I., not a bounty hunter.::Herman Barker: No difference.

Paradise Ges.m.b.H. (1986)

Actors: Rainer Egger (actor), Nikolaus Leytner (director), Nikolaus Leytner (writer), Silvia Wohlmuth (actress), Peter Zeitlinger (editor), Karl Kröpfl (actor), Amaryllis Sommerer (actress), Renate Jett (actress), Martin Stepanik (composer), Ena Mayr (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Open the Door and See All the People (1964)

Actors: John Holland (actor), Taylor Mead (actor), Jerome Hill (director), Jerome Hill (producer), Jerome Hill (writer), Otto Lang (miscellaneous crew), Chao Li Chi (actor), Alec Wilder (actor), Alec Wilder (composer), Charles Rydell (actor), Tony Ballen (actor), Louise Rush (actress), Henry A. Sundquist (editor), Gwen Davies (actress), Harry Rigby (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

The Music Man (1962)

Actors: Hank Worden (actor), Shirley Jones (actress), Max Showalter (actor), Robert Preston (actor), Scott Seaton (actor), Ron Howard (actor), Charles Lane (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor), Buddy Hackett (actor), Ted Mapes (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Milton Parsons (actor), Rance Howard (actor), Barbara Pepper (actress), William Fawcett (actor),

Plot: Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching band, then skip town with the money since he has no music skill anyway. Things go awry when he falls for a librarian he tries to divert from exposing him while he inadvertently enriches the town with a love of music.

Keywords: anvil, barbershop-quartet, based-on-stage-musical, billiards, blockbuster, carrying-someone, child, con-artist, dance, famous-song
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: The story of that man and his 76 trombones, and the wonderful, wonderful tune he played on every heart in town!

Quotes:

Harold Hill: A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

Mayor Shinn: It's as clear as a buttonhook in the well water!

[in song]::Citizens of River City: So what the heck? You're welcome! Join us at the picnic! You can eat your fill of all the food you bring yourself.

Mayor Shinn: You watch your phraseology!

[in song]::Mrs. Paroo: When a woman's got a husband, and you've got none, why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other high-falutin' Greeks.

[in song]::Marian Paroo: Do you think that I'd allow a common masher - ? Now, really, mama. I have my standards where men are concerned and I have no intention...::Mrs. Paroo: I know all about your standards and if you don't mind my sayin' so there's not a man alive who could hope to measure up to that blend of Paul Bunyan, Saint Pat, and Noah Webster you've concocted for yourself out of your Irish imagination, your Iowa stubbornness, and your li'berry full of books!

[in song]::Alma Hix: Oh yes, that woman made brazen overtures, with a guilt-edge guarantee / She had a golden glint in her eye and a silver voice with a counterfeit ring / Just melt her down and you'll reveal / a lump of lead as cold as steel / Here, where a woman's heart should be.

[in song]::Harold Hill: I rant and I rave for the virtue I'm too late to save / I smile, I grin when the gal with a touch of sin walks in / I hope and I pray for Hester to win just one more "A" / The sadder but wiser girl's the girl for me / The sadder but wiser girl for me.

[in song]::Harold Hill: Seventy-six trombones led the big parade / with a hundred and ten cornets close at hand / They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos / the cream of every famous band!

Marian Paroo: No, please, not tonight. Maybe tomorrow.::Harold Hill: Oh, my dear little librarian. You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.

Amaryllis, to koritsi tis agapis (1959)

Actors: Aristeidis Karydis-Fuchs (editor), Dinos Iliopoulos (actor), Costas Kakavas (actor), Despo Diamantidou (actress), Nestoras Matsas (writer), Dinos Dimopoulos (director), Nikos Kourkoulos (actor), Dimitris Myrat (actor), Zoras Tsapelis (actor), Kostas Kourtis (actor), Takis Morakis (composer), Yorgos Damasiotis (actor), Sonia Zoidou (actress), Vasilis Kanakis (actor), Vion Papamihalis (writer),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Dance Little Lady (1954)

Actors: Marianne Stone (actress), Val Guest (director), Guy Rolfe (actor), Mai Zetterling (actress), Lisa Gastoni (actress), Val Guest (writer), Joan Hickson (actress), Reginald Beckwith (actor), Jane Asher (actress), Richard O'Sullivan (actor), Harold Lang (actor), Joan Benham (actress), Eunice Gayson (actress), Splinters Deason (miscellaneous crew), Alexander Gauge (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Jealous Husbands (1923)

Actors: Ben Alexander (actor), J. Gunnis Davis (actor), Maurice Tourneur (producer), Fred Myton (writer), Fred Myton (writer), Maurice Tourneur (director), Bull Montana (actor), Wedgwood Nowell (actor), George Siegmann (actor), Earle Williams (actor), Emily Fitzroy (actress), Carmelita Geraghty (actress), Jane Novak (actress), Carl Miller (actor), Pierre Decourcelle (writer),

Plot: When a man's wife is accused of adultery, her insanely jealous husband gives her young son away to a traveling band of gypsies. Years later, when the son grows up, he sets out to prove that his mother wasn't guilty of adultery but was actually trying to help her sister-in-law escape the clutches of a blackmailer.

Keywords: based-on-play, melodrama
Genres: Drama,