The Sound of Music

The happiest sound in all the world!

Plot Summary

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.

7.7 /10

1965

US

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