Audience Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5013037007336
Format: Digital Sound, HiFi Sound, PAL
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: April 09, 2001
Running Time: 165 minutes
Sales Rank: 175
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1965

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
The most widely seen movie produced by a Hollywood studio, The Sound of Music grows fresher with each viewing. Though it was planned meticulously in pre-production (save for the scene where Maria and the children take a dipping in an Austrian lake that nearly cost a life), on each viewing one is struck anew by the spontaneous almost improvisatory air of the acting, notably of Julie Andrews under Robert Wise's direction. There are also the little human touches he brings to, for instance, the scene where Maria leads the children to the hills, over bridges and along tow paths where the smallest boy trips up and momentarily gets left behind: it creates a feeling that most of us have encountered. From the opening pre-credit sequence of muted excitement as the camera roves over the Austrian Alps (photographed in magnificent colour), where little phrases from the wind instruments on the soundtrack are flung as if on the breeze, foreshadowing the title song to follow, the production never puts a foot wrong.




Rating: - The Sound of Music: the 20th Century Fox issue on VHS
I had to return my borrowed 'original' VHS tape and I didn't want the DVD (high up in a recent survey of most wanted gadgets: a button on a DVD remote labeled "Just play the goddam film"). When I received the tape I was disappointed to see "DIGITALLY MASTERED FOR SUPERIOR SOUND AND PICTURE QUALITY". Why do they lie like this? Luckily the sound has survived but the picture is awful compared to the very old, much played borrowed tape. The picture has a brownish tinge and soft focus all the way through. ... Read More

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Rating: - How musicals should be
If "West Side Story" was the best musical film of the sixties, then "The Sound of Music," adapted from the long-running Broadway musical play about Maria Von Trapp and her singing family, was certainly the most popular...

With a story that includes the right amount of family sentiment (the Von Trapp children never quarrel among themselves), religion (in the Hollywood tradition of serene, kind nuns), romance (actually two romances, one adult, one adolescent), and anti-Nazi feeling (Captain ... Read More

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Rating: - The Greatest Musical of All Time - Ever!
The Sound Of Music is my favourite musical ever. The film centres on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers, who are forced to flee their Native Austrian Homeland to escape the evil reign of Hitlers Third Riech.

The film begins with a majestic alpine lanscape of the distance mountains, and the views of Austria throughout are breathtaking. Julie Andrews is wonderful in the role of Maria, as is her counterpart Christopher Plummer as the arrogent and Proud Captain Von Trap. Maria is a spirited ... Read More

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Rating: - Beautiful film for all the family
'The Sound of Music' is a classic musical for all the family. Starring Julie Andrews as Maria, a spirited young nun who leaves the abbey to go and governess for Captain Von Trapp's seven children at the start of World War 2.
Widower Captain Von Trapp treats his family like the crew on one of his naval ships, so Maria decides to liven up the seven bored children by taking them to all these different parts of Austria and teaching them to sing.
But as time goes by, Maria realises that she is starting ... Read More

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Rating: - Surreal and awe inspiring
This film's got it all - singing nuns, evil Nazis, lederhosen plus Julie Andrews at her most sexiest. Who could ask for anything more ???

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