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The Sound of Music (1965)
7.9
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower. Director:Robert Wise |
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Won 5 Oscars.
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Eleanor Parker | ... | |
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Richard Haydn | ... | |
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Peggy Wood | ... | |
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Charmian Carr | ... | |
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Heather Menzies-Urich | ... |
Louisa
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Duane Chase | ... | |
| Angela Cartwright | ... | ||
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Debbie Turner | ... |
Marta
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Anna Lee | ... | |
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Portia Nelson | ... | |
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Ben Wright | ... | |
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Storyline
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... Written by LOTUS73
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RADIANCE THAT FLOODS THE SCREEN...AND WARMS THE HEART! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music See more »Box Office
Budget:
$8,200,000 (estimated)Gross:
$163,214,286 (USA)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Mono (Westrex Recording System) (35 mm prints) | Stereo (some 35 mm prints) | DTS 70 mm (70mm re-release)Color:
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2.35 : 1
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Maria: [singing] The hills are alive with the sound of music / With songs they have sung for a thousand years. / The hills fill my heart with the sound of music. / My heart wants to sing every song it hears.
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(1959) (uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodgers
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Captain Von Trapp's car is a Mercedes-Benz W142, manufactured between 1936 and 1942. See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: The exterior front door of the Von Trapp villa, shot in Salzburg, is a double door, maybe 7ft high, with a semi-circular glass fan-light above it. The interior of that same door, shot at Fox's studios in California, has a similar double door below, but with double height solid wood paneling continuing above it. No fan-light to be seen anywhere. It's interesting to note that the back door of the villa, opening onto the rear terrace, and again seen at various points during the movie, is also a 7ft high double door with a fan-light above it, but the interior and exterior versions of this do match up. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Maria: [singing] The hills are alive with the sound of music / With songs they have sung for a thousand years. / The hills fill my heart with the sound of music. / My heart wants to sing every song it hears.
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Crazy Credits
The 20th Century Fox logo is played in complete silence. See more »Soundtracks
"Prelude"(1959) (uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodgers
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