The Sound of Music

 

The Sound of Music 1965

• Director: Robert Wise
• Seen by this director: The Haunting of Hill House, West Side Story, I Want to Live
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood,
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Julie Andrews – Victor/Victoria, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hawaii, Torn Curtain, Mary Poppins
• Christopher Plummer – Knives Out, The Last Station, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Emotional Arithmetic, The Lake House, A Beautiful Mind, The Twelve Monkeys, Dolores Claiborne, Malcolm X, Star Trek the Undiscovered Country, Eyewitness, The Man Who Would Be King, Inside Daisy Clover
• Richard Haydn – Five Weeks in a Balloon, many series from the 60s
• Why? Need you ask?
• Seen: Many times. Now 6 February 2021 in memory of Christopher Plummer.      

       How is it possible that I haven’t yet written a review of this classic? It seems that the last time I saw it was before starting the blog. Now is a good moment to watch it again.

       I’m not even going to write a review. It’s just a film one must simply see and love - despite the moments of cloying sweetness, religious claptrap and hammy acting – again and again.

       It doesn’t really deserve 5 but it’s getting

  5* of 5