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The Sound of Music

60th Anniversary | 4K

Total Cinema

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The biggest hit of the 1960s, The Sound of Music is basically Jane Eyre crossed with Snow White: Julie Andrews is the novice nun Maria sent to mind seven little von Trapps and falling in love with their forbidding father, widower Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). The Evil Queen, in this case, would be (an unseen) Adolf Hitler, because we are in Austria, 1938. The Rogers and Hammerstein tunes include Maria, Do-Re-Mi, Climb Every Mountain, Edelweiss and My Favourite Things.

 

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Director

Robert Wise

Cast

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker

Credits
Country of Origin

USA

Year

1965

Language

English

G

Open to youth!
$10 tickets available

172 min

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Credits

Screenwriter

Ernest Lehman

Cinematography

Ted D. McCord

Editor

William Reynolds

Production Design

Boris Leven

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