Word: gemütlich
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...Though Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults. In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice ... [The film's] gem?tlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big, warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding...
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