![]() Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286 million. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time-surpassing Gone with the Wind-and held that distinction for five years. Although initial critical response to the film was mixed, it was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office film after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. The Sound of Music was released on March 2, 1965, in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. įilming took place from March to September 1964 in Los Angeles and Salzburg. Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant who, in 1938, is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical, composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. They kept going into Italy, at the time not firmly allied with Germany, and wound up in the U.S.The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. ![]() In fact they made the excuse that they were going mountain climbing in the Alps, about 100km south. In the movie it looks like the Trapps escape by sneaking out their back yard and over the mountains into what on the map is obviously Germany. But he did have combat experience, knowledge of the local waters, and guts. The captain was in his mid-50s at the time, and his World War I sub had been only 40 feet long with a crew of five. After the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938 he was offered command of a new submarine that was eventually to be based in the Adriatic. Trapp’s wartime exploits, which made him a national hero and earned him a baronetcy, hadn’t eluded the notice of Berlin, however. Having lost the war, A-H lost the port and the rest of its coastline as well. He wreaked havoc on allied shipping but in vain. During World War I Georg Trapp commanded a submarine launched from the Adriatic port of Fiume, then held by Austria-Hungary. Dear Cecil: The recent network showing of The Sound of Music called to mind the musical’s two howling bloopers: how can Captain von Trapp be a captain in the Austrian navy if Austria is a landlocked country, and why do the von Trapps, refugees from the Nazis, “climb every mountain” into what on the map looks like Berchtesgaden’s back yard? What about the real von Trapps? How did they actually escape Austria, and what navy was the captain in? (I know that before 1918 Austria held the coast of Yugoslavia, but then why would Hitler be hot to get his hands on somebody who hadn’t smelled salt water in twenty years?) David Drewer, Baltimore
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