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Sound of Music, The (1965)

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All Time

of 190,116

68

1960's

of 9,429

9

1965

of 3,167

1
Family
- Family All Time
  
  of 4,952
  
  5
  
  Family of 1965
  
  of 62
  
  1
  
  Family of the 1960's
  
  of 545
  
  2
Musical
- Musical All Time
  
  of 3,076
  
  4
  
  Musical of 1965
  
  of 34
  
  1
  
  Musical of the 1960's
  
  of 210
  
  2

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Sound of Music, The (1965) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:3.5928

Avg Critic Score:3.4693

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Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)

Seriously, though, I was not looking forward to Sing-a-Long Sound of Music, mainly because I'm not an admirer of Robert Wise's 1965 Oscar-winning monstrosity. It's a bulldozer of a musical, plowing straight through things like taste, restraint, grace, ...read the complete Sound of Music movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)

TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)

It's so perfectly contrived and mechanical and fresh as a daisy, it's infuriating. And only the sly, insistently subversive Christopher Plummer is on our side. ...read the complete Sound of Music movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)

DVDwolf (Rob Paul)

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer ...read the complete Sound of Music movie review at DVDwolf (Rob Paul)

Mr. Cranky

This is one of those movies that's advertised, be it on the video or DVD box, as a film that's "fun for the whole family." Did anybody notice this thing is three hours long? "The Sound of Music" is like "Shoah" for eight-year-olds. They grow up ...read the complete Sound of Music movie review at Mr. Cranky

New York Times (Bosley Crowther)

The septet of blond and beaming youngsters who have to act like so many Shirley Temples and Freddie Bartholomews when they were young do as well as could be expected with their assortedly artificial roles, but the adults are fairly horrendous. ...read the complete Sound of Music movie review at New York Times (Bosley Crowther)

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