The Sound of Music

– Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
8.00 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 52 Minutes
Release Year:
1965
The Sound of Music (1965)

Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.

The Sound of Music (1965) - Trailer

Release Date:

01 Apr 1965

Language:

English, German

MPAA Content-Rating:
G – General Audiences

All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.

Director:

Robert Wise

Writer:

George Hurdalek (with the partial use of ideas by), Howard Lindsay (from the stage musical book by), Russel Crouse (from the stage musical book by), Ernest Lehman (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn

Plot:

In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain's wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made. Their personal conflicts soon become overshadowed, however, by world events. Austria is about to come under the control of Germany, and the Captain may soon find himself drafted into the German navy and forced to fight against his own country.

Awards:

Won 5 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 13 nominations.

Production:

20th Century-Fox

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
Metacritic:
63%