Sound of Music (The)
- Director: Robert Wise
- Writer: Ernest Lehman; Howard Lindsay; Russel Crouse; Maria Von Trapp
- Producer: Robert Wise
CGiii Comment
Well...what can we say about the most perfect family film that hasn't been said before!?! Absolutely nothing. It is what it is...a timeless, perfect family film.
There is no LGBT content whatsoever...but, because it's a musical...Steven Paul Davies decided to include it in his ludicrous book: Out at the Movies: A History of Gay Cinema - which, in reality, is a subjective list of his [frequently questionable] favourite films!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Maria (Dame Julie Andrews) is a failure as a nun. The Mother Superior sends her off in answer to a letter from a retired Naval Captain for a governess for his seven children. She goes to their house and finds that she is the latest in a long line of governesses run off by the children. She teaches the children to sing and that becomes their bonding force, of course leading her to fall in love with their father and marries him. As this is happening Austria votes to be assumed by Germany on the eve of World war II.
Cast & Characters
Julie Andrews as Maria
Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp
Eleanor Parker as The Baroness
Richard Haydn as Max Detweiler
Peggy Wood as Mother Abbess
Charmian Carr as Liesl
Heather Menzies-Urich as Louisa (as Heather Menzies)
Nicholas Hammond as Friedrich
Duane Chase as Kurt
Angela Cartwright as Brigitta
Debbie Turner as Marta
Kym Karath as Gretl
Anna Lee as Sister Margaretta
Portia Nelson as Sister Berthe
Ben Wright as Herr Zeller