The Sound of Music

4.25
    The Sound of Music
    1965

    Synopsis

    In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

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    Cast

    • Julie AndrewsFräulein Maria
    • Christopher PlummerCaptain Georg von Trapp
    • Eleanor ParkerBaroness Elsa von Schraeder
    • Richard HaydnMax Detweiler
    • Peggy WoodMother Abbess
    • Charmian CarrLiesl von Trapp
    • Heather MenziesLouisa von Trapp
    • Nicholas HammondFriedrich von Trapp
    • Duane ChaseKurt von Trapp
    • Angela CartwrightBrigitta von Trapp

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Telegraph

      As for Andrews, she is just a joy, conveying enough doubt beneath that brisk, clean exterior to stop her character becoming a prig; her comic timing and the way in which she convinces in her relationships with the children are so understated they can be underrated.
    • 100

      Variety

      The Robert Wise production is a warmly pulsating, captivating drama set to the most imaginative use of the lilting R-H tunes, magnificently mounted and with a brilliant cast headed by Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer which must strike a respondent chord at the box office.
    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The 20th-Fox release will be one of the movies' all-time hits, one of the all-time great pictures. It restores your faith in movies. If you sit quietly and let it take, it may also restore your faith in humanity. It does this with infectious wit, with consistent gaiety, with simple and realistic spirituality, with romance of heartbreak and heartmend. This is set against the most beautiful scenery you have seen in your life. The Sound of Music is quite a picture.
    • 100

      Empire

      One of the greatest screen musicals ever.
    • 100

      New York Daily News

      Robert Wise has transformed the delightful Rodgers and Hammerstein musical stage production of "The Sound of Music" into a magical film in which Julie Andrews gives an endearing performance in the role of Maria, the governess.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones, with its reactionary nature tempered by Ernest Lehman's supple screenplay, and its elephantine running-time eased by a set of songs that lodge in your system like hookworms.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      It's so perfectly contrived and mechanical and fresh as a daisy, it's infuriating.
    • 40

      The New York Times

      Miss Andrews, with her air of radiant vigor, her appearance of plain-Jane wholesomeness and her ability to make her dialogue as vivid and appealing as she makes her songs, brings a nice sort of Mary Poppins logic and authority to this role, which is always in peril of collapsing under its weight of romantic nonsense and sentiment.

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