The sound of music

Resource Information

The work The sound of music represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in The Ferguson Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

The Resource The sound of music

Label: The sound of music

Statement of responsibility: Twentieth Century Fox presents ; screenplay by Ernest Lehman ; directed by Robert Wise ; produced by Argyle Enterprises

Title variation: Rodgers and Hammerstein's The sound of music

Contributor

Language

eng
fre
spa
eng
spa
eng

Summary: As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children

Awards note: Academy awards, best picture, best director, best film editing, best sound, Best music, scoring of music, adaptation or treatment, 1965

Cataloging source: BKX

Characteristic: videorecording

Credits note: Director of photography, Ted McCord ; film editor, William Reynolds ; music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Intended audience: MPAA rating: G

Language note

Soundtrack in English, French or Spanish; subtitles in English or Spanish
Closed-captioned

LC call number: PN1997

LC item number: .S58 2005

PerformerNote: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Ben Wright, Daniel Truhitte, Norma Varden, Marni Nixon, Gil Stuart, Evadne Baker, Doris Lloyd, Eleanor Parker

Runtime: 174

Target audience: general

Technique: live action

Context

Context of The sound of music