Rex Harrison

Rating: 3/10 (20 March 2012)

When "The Sound of Music" premiered, Rex Harrison was in attendance. At the end of the show, he was asked what he thought of the movie. His answer, "It was the first time in my life that I rooted for the Nazis!"
I saw "The Sound of Music" on stage years ago, and it ran a little over 2 hours. This monstrosity of a film runs almost 3 hours. Talk about padding, and they even cut some of the songs from the stage version. While the stage presentation moved right along to keep your interest, this movie plods along at a snail's pace to bore you to tears. This show has great music, which is presented to much better effect on the Original Broadway Cast Recording with Mary Martin.