The Sound of Music (50th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray + DVD + CD) G
The happiest sound in all the world!
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 5
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 10, 2015
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Julie Andrews & Christopher Plummer | |
Performer: | Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Angela Cartwright, Ben Wright & Norma Varden | |
Directed by | Robert Wise | |
Edited by | William Reynolds | |
Screenplay by | Ernest Lehman | |
Composition by | Richard Rodgers & Irwin Kostal | |
Produced by | Robert Wise | |
Director of Photography: | Ted McCord |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Irwin Kostal
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Costume Design (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Director: Robert Wise
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Sound: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
5 stars out of 5 -- Julie Andrews' 1965 heroine is hard to beat...combining innocent enthusiasm with comic timing and a soaring soprano voice.
Empire
...Beloved... -- Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly
Pure, unadulterated kitsch, not a false note, not a whiff of reality; and every detail so carefully worked out... I came out full of goodwill toward all humanity.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: A+ --
Just about a perfect movie.
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rachelsreviews.net
Robert Wise is responsible for this overly sugary cake that must be listened to with earplugs. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
The movie has a confidence and a sense of moral purpose that warms the hardest heart.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 5/5 --
The location work in Salzburg has an ineffable charm and it's all performed with such zinging, joyous energy.
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Guardian
Product Description:
Shot in Salzburg against the majestic Bavarian Alps, THE SOUND OF MUSIC is considered one of the greatest screen musicals ever made. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Robert Wise), the film, based on a real family and their true events, tells the story of a young postulate, Maria (Julie Andrews), who, after proving too high-spirited for the Mother Abess and other nuns, is sent off to work as a governess to seven unruly children. The Von Trapp family is run, in military style, by the seemingly cold-hearted Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer), a lonely widowed naval officer. Seeing how badly he and his children need companionship, he proposes to the Baroness Schraeder (Eleanor Parker), a calculating, mutual friend of beloved family friend Max Detweiler (Richard Haydn). It is the baroness who soon realizes that it's Maria--with her warmth and love for the children--the captain really loves. It is nearly bliss for the newly formed family who loves to sing together--except for the cloud looming over their beloved Austrian horizon: Hitler is ascending to power, forcing Von Trapp to decide whether to join the Nazi party--which he loathes--or force his family to leave their home forever. One of the most memorable scores ever written (by Rodgers and Hammerstein) and breathtaking performances by Andrews, Plummer, and the seven children mark this classic as one of the world's most favorite films.