The Sound of Music (1965)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 51
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 8
Unapologetically sweet and maybe even a little corny, The Sound of Music will win over all but the most cynical filmgoers with its classic songs and irresistible warmth.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
Unapologetically sweet and maybe even a little corny, The Sound of Music will win over all but the most cynical filmgoers with its classic songs and irresistible warmth.
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Movie Info
One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to sing the title song. Deciding that Maria needs to learn something about the real world before she can take her vows, the Mother Superior (Peggy Wood) sends her off to be governess for the children of the widowed Captain Von
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Cast
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Julie Andrews
Maria von Trapp -
Christopher Plummer
Captain Von Trapp -
Eleanor Parker
The Baroness -
Richard Haydn
Max Detweiler -
Peggy Wood
Mother Abbess -
Charmian Carr
Liesl -
Heather Menzies
Louisa -
Nicholas Hammond
Friedrich -
Duane Chase
Kurt -
Angela Cartwright
Brigitta -
Debbie Turner
Marta -
Kym Karath
Gretl -
Anna Lee
Sister Margaretta -
Portia Nelson
Sister Berthe -
Ben Wright
Herr Zeller -
Daniel Truhitte
Rolfe -
Norma Varden
Frau Schmidt -
Marni Nixon
Sister Sophia -
Evadne Baker
Sister Bernice -
Doris Lloyd
Baroness Ebberfeld -
Gilchrist Stuart
Franz -
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All Critics (51) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (8) | DVD (33)
In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice.
Top CriticEvery audience sniffle and tear has been taken into account.
Call me a drongo, but this really is quite watchable (yes, I've seen it more than once).
The septet of blond and beaming youngsters who have to act like so many Shirley Temples and Freddie Bartholomews when they were young do as well as could be expected with their assortedly artificial roles, but the adults are fairly horrendous.
The movie has almost everything: music, romance, kids, spectacular scenery, religion, sentiment, comedy high and low, and, at the end, intrigue and adventure.
A warmly pulsating, captivating drama.
Handsomely shot on location in Salzburg and expertly edited, The Sound Of Music plucks at your heartstrings with clinical precision.
Outstanding family film features glorious music.
The Sound of Music is high-fructose corn-syrupy, built on simplistic psychology, unnaturalistic acting and historical inaccuracy. It's also well-nigh irresistible. [Blu-ray]
The Sound of Music has one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's best scores, and that's saying something. It's a warm and wonderful movie that has "timeless" written all over it.
It grows on one like edelweiss.
Escapist films about, well, escaping, don't come any better than this.
Check your cynicism at the door: Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones.
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God, The Sound of Music is so freakin' nice.
It's so perfectly contrived and mechanical and fresh as a daisy, it's infuriating. And only the sly, insistently subversive Christopher Plummer is on our side.
One of the finest examples of escapist musical entertainment. The Sound of Music is a terrific picture.
Labeled "Sound of Money," this is Hollywood musical as its most calculating, with something for everyone: corny anti-Nazi politics, melodic tunes, schmaltzy romance, old-fashioned family values
No christmas day would be complete without spending the afternoon falling asleep in front of this film.
Objectively I can look at it and see that is a load of sentimental hogwash, but if I relax and just watch it, it sucks me in every time.
Watching it just makes you feel wonderful.
A classic in every sense of the word.
Great music, great scenery, how can you not love this?
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Movies Like The Sound of Music
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- Captain Von Trapp: You must find your life.
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- Herr Zeller: I've not asked you where you and your family are going. Nor have you asked me why I am here.
- Captain Von Trapp: Well, apparently, we're both suffering from a deplorable lack of curiosity.
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- Mother Abbess: Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
- Kurt: I wonder what grass tastes like.
- Captain Von Trapp: You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.
- Frau Schmidt: The Von Trapp children don't play. They march.
- Captain Von Trapp: If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section.
- Kurt: Only grown-up men are scared of women.
- Maria von Trapp: When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.
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- Maria von Trapp: Maria: I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.
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- Maria von Trapp: When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.
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- Baroness Ebberfeld: Somewhere out there is a lady who I think will never be a nun. Auf Wiedersehen, darling.
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