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...SOUND OF MUSIC. This Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers who tied Austria after the Anschluss of 1938 has more sugar than spice, but a buoyant performance by Julie Andrews makes the show seem irresistibly gemütlich...
...SOUND OF MUSIC. This Rich ard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers who fled Austria after the Anschluss of 1938 has more sugar than spice, but a buoyant performance by Julie Andrews makes the show seem irresistibly gemiitlich...
...Sound of Music, based on the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical comedy satisfies nearly all the requirements for what moviemakers tout as wholesome family entertainment. It is tuneful, cheerful and colorful-exquisitely filmed in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria. It celebrates courage-the real-life daring of the Trapp Family Singers, who fled the Nazis in 1938. 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...
...Christopher Plummer, slickly miscast), a widower who shares his palatial Schloss with seven troublesome but more or less irresistible children. Appalled by the captain's ironfisted discipline, Maria coddles the youngsters. One stormy eve she packs them all into bed with her, quieting their fears with some doughty Hammerstein stanzas. Eventually she teaches them to sing, captivates their father and marries him. Together they lead their septet across the border to Switzerland, with storm troopers baying in the wings...
...gets no share of the millions that pour in from Beatle concerts and records, but the copyrights to the 56 Lennon-McCartney songs yield it about $1,400,000 a year in royalties. "McCartney and Lennon," boasts Dick James, the company president, "are going to be the Rodgers and Hammerstein of the future." Security analysts who want to chart the stock had better put away their tables and keep a close watch on the youngsters' Beatlemania...