The hills are alive...

Rating: 10/10 (23 August 1999)

... and so, too, will your heart be, after seeing this perhaps most wonderful of all movie musicals. The music is at the all-time apex of show tunes. Julie Andrews was born to play Maria, the novitiate too much in love with the world. The story is rescued from the cloying by the subplot of opposing and escaping the encroaching Nazi stranglehold on Austria: love, beauty, and harmony survive as witnesses to the right and the good, in a real world run suddenly amok.