Basic Info
Title: The Sound of Music
Genre: Romance/Musical/Drama
Country: United States
Language: English
Running time: 174 minutes
Release date: March 2, 1965 (United States)
Staff
Director: Robert Wise
Producer: Robert Wise
Screenplay by: Ernest Lehman
Music: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
Cinematography: Ted D. McCord
Edited by: William H. Reynolds
Cast
Julie
Andrews as Maria von Trapp
Christopher
Plummer as Captain von Trapp
Richard
Haydn as Max Detweiler
Peggy
Wood as the Mother Abbess
Charmian
Carr as Liesl von Trapp
Eleanor
Parker as Baroness Elsa von Schraeder
Summary
"The Sound of Music" is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Based on Maria von Trapp’s
1949 memoir, the film is about the story of a young Austrian postulant living
in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to a retired naval officer and widower's
villa to become a governess for his seven children. After bringing love and
music into the life of the family, she marries the officer and, together with
the children, finds a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis.
The
filming took place in Los Angeles and Salzburg from March to September 1964,
and was released in the United States on March 2, 1965. Although initial
critical response to the film was mixed, it was a commercial success and became
the highest-grossing film of 1965.
The film won five Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it as the 55th greatest American movie of all time, and the fourth greatest movie musical.
In 2001, the United States Library of
Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry as a
film of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Movie Review
“Lovely”
“Rich and gooey, sticky and sugary sweet, but unavoidable”
“The sound of heavenly music”
“One of cinema's most enduring family classics”
“One of the best musicals ever made”
“An excellent musical”
“A timeless Classic”
“Legend”
“One of the greatest movies of all time”
“The sound of greatness”
“Hollywood's last great musical”
“A timeless classic”
“Lovely sound”
“A cultural icon”
Interesting stories about the film
1.
Julie Andrews sang "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" to the
children in the cast to entertain them between shooting. Because “Mary Poppins
(1964)” had not yet been released, they thought she made the song for them.
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| Mary Poppins (1964) |
2.
In "I Have Confidence", Maria fell while running down the courtyard
towards the Von Trapp house, but it was an accident. However, producer and
director Robert Wise liked it so much that he kept it in the film.
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| Julie Andrews |
3.
The film is based on Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir, "The Story of the Von
Trapp Family Singers".
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| Maria von Trapp |
4.
The song "Edelweiss" was made for this film and is little known in
Austria. It was the last song of Oscar Hammerstein II before his death on
August 23, 1960.
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| Oscar Hammerstein II |
5.
The famous puppet sequence in "The Lonely Goatherd" was produced and
performed by the leading puppeteers of the day, Bil Baird and Cora Baird.
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| Bil and Cora Baird |
6.
This film is credited as the movie that saved Twentieth Century Fox after the box
office failure of "Cleopatra (1963)".
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| Cleopatra (1963) |
7.
The film's status as the most successful musical film was surpassed 13 years
later by "Grease (1978)" in actual box office, but it remained the
most successful film musical when adjusted for inflation.
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| Grease (1978) |
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