Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this ...

Oh, they have trouble, right there in River City, Iowa, where a smooth-talking con man convinces the locals ... he has no idea how to play or teach music. Robert Preston reprises the title role ...

Ron Howard is also a producer on the film and helped Spielberg introduce ... he and Williams both worked on the 1962 film “The Music Man” and spontaneously sang a stanza of “The Wells ...