The Sound Of Music

A free-spirited governess gains the trust and respect of a strict naval officers seven children, helps them discover their love of music, and eventually marries the Captain and flees to Switzerland with their family to escape the pursuing Nazis during the annexation of Austria. The Sound Of Music is a 1965 American English-language Biography Drama motion picture featuring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, Eleanor Parker and Bill Lee. The movie is inspired from The Sound of Music by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. Argyle Enterprises in association with Inc. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Robert Wise. The Sound Of Music is written by George Hurdalek, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Ernest Lehman and Maria Von Trapp and it is directed by Robert Wise. 20th Century Fox acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The Sound Of Music was released on 2nd March 1965 and takes a screen time of 174 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. The Sound Of Music was made on a budget of $8 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $159 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Ernest Lehman. Cinematography was done by Ted D. McCord and editing by William H. Reynolds. The music was composed by Academy Award Oscar winner Irwin Kostal along with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Ii. At the 1966 Oscar Awards It won 5 awards including: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound, Best Film Editing and Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.