The Music Man

Sinopse

Professor Harold Hill (Matthew Broderick), is a Confidence_trick of a traveling salesman who makes a living by selling musical instruments and uniforms for children in midwestern towns, promising to teach them and organize them into a band. However, he really knows nothing of music and skips town once the merchandise is delivered. Hill is sitting on a train in the first scene, playing cards while listening to the other travelling salesmen on the train talk about him and his cons (Rock Island). Deciding from their conversation to target the naive citizens of River City, Iowa ("Gentlemen, you intrigue me, I think I'll give Iowa a try"), an anvil salesman named Charlie Cowell realizes who Hill is, but fails to catch him when he hastily leaves the train. Charlie yells out the window of the train "I won't forget your face, Hill!" before the train travels on, while Hill is stepping onto the fresh soil of Iowa.