Editorial Review:Amazon.com essential video:Some people may sneer at this 1965 musical, but the truth is the film has earned its status as a perennially watchable romantic-drama, largely on the strength of a fun story and chemistry between stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Veteran filmmaker Robert Wise (
The Day the Earth Stood Still) mostly stays out of the way of the film's appealing elements, which include a based-on-fact tale of Austria's von Trapp family, who fled their Nazi-occupied country in 1938. Andrews is delightful and even fascinating as Maria, who sheds her tomboyish ways as a novice nun to accept the mantle of adulthood, becoming matron of the motherless von Trapp clan. Plummer is matinee-idol handsome and gives a smart performance to boot, and the cast of young people and kids who make up the singing von Trapp children make a strong impression. Based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, the score includes such winners as 'Maria' and the future John Coltrane hit 'My Favorite Things.'
--Tom Keogh
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Wonderful Movie
It was a great family night movie. Both my 8 year old and 4 year old enjoyed it. Very different from the usual movie night movies and a welcome change. Very long for the younger one - he fell asleep and woke up a couple times but well worth the price for this classic.
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THE SOUND OF MONEY
The Sound of Music (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
With nearly three hours of snow-capped Swiss mountains, a sprawling family of six children, extravagant parties, picnics and family concerts in Salzburg and buckets of encouragement from Rogers and Hammerstein, it's no wonder that this film is also called THE SOUND OF MONEY. It won FIVE ACADEMY AWARDS and has taken hundreds of millions dollars. It's the surprisingly simple story of Maria(JULIE ANDREWS), a nun who's Governess to the rigidly disciplined children of an Austrian Military Captain(CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER). She so enchants him that he breaks off his engagement to a socialite baroness. In the meantime, Maria, teaches the children to sing and the whole family is soon giving a concert in Salzburg, after which they flee the country to escape the Nazis.
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Classic movie
This was a brand new movie & was fun to watch. It was worth every penny!
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Classic Feel-Good Movie
It is so nice to be able to go back to those good feelings experienced during childhood. With a new perspective and appreciation for these movie I found myself singing along through the movie and caught myself smiling more than once. This movie is very special to me and I'm just plain glad for DVD technology and the producers of this Anniversary edition.
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ONE OF MY GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENTS IN LIFE . . .
. . . is the fact that I can't get my young daughter to sit through this movie! Perhaps I should think of some way to bribe her into watching it. I suppose I could tell her that she can't watch television EVER AGAIN IN HER LIFE unless she sits though The Sound of Music!
I first saw it at the movie theater. My friends and I walked back to the theater and watched it three days in a row. I don't know how many times I've seen it since, but I do know this: I can't look at thick curtains without thinking of pulling them down and having a dress sewn from them. I can't look at a brown paper package tied up with string (and string-tied packages are, sadly, so rare these days) without hearing the Favorite Things song in my head. I can barely hear the words SIXTEEN and SEVENTEEN in the same sentence without singing THAT song!
So, yes, the movie is in my heart and in my head. Now if only I could figure out some way to get it into my daughter's head! I'm open to suggestions if anyone wants to send them to me. (Send me a message on Myspace.)
