Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 174 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
- resistance
- world war ii
- musical
- austria
- based on true story
- music competition
- based on play or musical
- alps mountains
- governess
- convent (nunnery)
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Julie Andrews
Maria
Christopher Plummer
Captain Georg von Trapp
Eleanor Parker
The Baroness
Charmian Carr
Liesl von Trapp
- Nicholas Hammond — Friedrich von Trapp
- Heather Menzies — Louisa von Trapp
- Angela Cartwright — Brigitta von Trapp
- Debbie Turner — Marta von Trapp
- Kym Karath — Gretl von Trapp
- Duane Chase — Kurt von Trapp
- Richard Haydn — Max Detweiler
- Anna Lee — Sister Margaretta
- Portia Nelson — Sister Berthe
- Peggy Wood — Mother Abbess
- Ben Wright — Herr Zeller
- Directed
- Robert Wise
- Written
- Maria von Trapp, Ernest Lehman
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 3,661 ratings
- Studio
- Robert Wise Productions, Argyle Enterprises, 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
