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The Sound of Music

by Richard Rodgers

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The Sound of Music

Film · 1965

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Robert Wise's film adapts the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about Maria and the von Trapp family, keeping its songs and adding two new ones, "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good", while moving much of the action out of the stage's rooms and onto the Alps and the streets of Salzburg.

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The Sound of Music

A novice sent from her abbey to look after a widowed naval officer's seven children marries him, and the Anschluss arrives in the second act. It is remembered as the most sentimental show ever written and ends with a family walking over a mountain to escape the Nazis, which is the part everybody forgets.