The Sound of Music

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Anyone else watching? What a perfect way to while away an afternoon, swooning over Captain Von Trapp. Can't think how many times I've seen it but, if it's on TV, it must be watched!

I saw a programme about it, and Maria von Trapp was present at the filming and made a bit of a nusiance of herself, always correcting parts of her story that she didn't agree with. She has a cameo part in the film

Thanks to this thread, I am now happily watching it (for the millionth time) on iPlayer 😋

Who knew that nuns and nazis would turn out to be a classic.

Thanks ! I watched it this evening.

Oh you must. It's a lovely bit of pure escapism.

Same! I don’t know how long the run was but yes, i got tickets and they were inside one of those jewellery boxes with a twirling ballerina as a gift. I too would have been about 8/9. I was so happy!!

I went to Salzburg to see where it was filmed, l love this film so much

Stupid comment!

@HurdyGurdy19 what came o please

@Raindropskeepfallinonmyhead it's beautiful isn't it. I was surprised by all the wires for the trams but we loved it.

Me and DH watched it. We both get teary at 'Climb Every Mountain '. It was the favourite song of my late Dad and also DH''s late dad and neither of us can hear it without teaching for a hankie!

It's a lovely film and we never tire of it.

I love SOM and always watched with DM when I was little - how young is too young for my DD to watch it?! She's 5... probably too young to explain about Nazis? Maybe I'll just start showing her some of the songs...

you could end it at the wedding ceremony @KatieKat88
it is a long film

Yeah she's got a pretty good attention span but I may be asking too much of her for the whole thing! Actually DM was taken to the cinema to see it and they left after the wedding so maybe that should be the family tradition...

I think the annexing of Austria and Nazis totally passed me by until I was an adult. I thought they were crossing the mountains just as a little hike.

I had read The Chalet School in Exile before I saw TSOM, so I knew what was going on.

My mum made me watch this as an early teen and she died last year so seeing this on made me think of her and cry

I miss you so mum mum

It's my favourite film and has always been one of my children's too :)

My parents went to see it when my mum was pregnant with me - that's how I ended up being called Maria.

Oh, I Iike the Baroness too. I went to a singalong Sound of Music aeons ago with a friend of mine who was a total fan of the Baroness, and she managed to get half the audience cheering for her. Though what I chiefly remember is being mildly alarmed at the number of authentic-looking Nazi uniforms to be found in the Oxford area.

She was one of the people in the background. I think in a market place scene? Perhaps I bigged it up a bit too much by saying cameo!

I adore the scene where Maria and the Captain dance the Laendler on the terrace. She has such grace and he is so elegant. But best of all you can read in his face tension then relief and joy as he holds out his hand over his shoulder and she reaches forward and takes it.
We see them fall in love in the course of the dance- and the poor Baroness can't miss this either.

DH and I have done the dancing up and down the steps in Salzburg

Oh my goodness?
my favourite film ever!
I also loose it at Eidelweiss
in NZ they had screenings where audience sing along - always very popular!

This is the real Maria, with her daughter Rosemarie and one of the original Von Trapp she cared for

It's quite near the start of the film, when Maria is on her way to the house, and she's singing I Have Confidence

One of my patients had this on when I was at work :) We were singing along to one of the songs (can't remember which one), whilst I was putting a cannula in her. I think people thought we were nuts, but we enjoyed the song :) Can't believe it's 60yrs old!

That's "The Producers."

Very different film.

It’s a lovely, uplifting film. The older I get the more I fancy Christopher plumber too.

I had a cathedral length veil when I got married, channelling my inner Maria (all the bugs and leaves got trapped in it in the churchyard!)