The Sound of Music
By: Argyle Enterprises, Inc. ; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; screenplay by Ernest Lehman ; directed by Robert Wise.
Contributors: Lehman, Ernest, 1915-; Wise, Robert, 1914-; Andrews, Julie.; Plummer, Christopher.; Haydn, Richard, 1905-; Wood, Peggy, 1892-1978.; Parker, Eleanor, 1922-; Rodgers, Richard, 1902-; Hammerstein, Oscar, 1895-1960.; Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968.; Crouse, Russel, 1893-1966.; Argyle Enterprises, Inc.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
Edition: Widescreen version.
Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Place of publication: Beverly Hills, CA
Format: Videorecording (DVD)
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Trapp Family Singers -- Drama.; Musical films.; Feature films.; Films for the hearing impaired.; DVD-Video discs.; Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938 -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Other titles: Rodgers and Hammerstein's the Sound of Music
Description: Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment.
Notes: Based on the musical by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.

Originally released as motion picture in 1965; copyright renewal in 1993.

Director of photography, Ted McCord; choreographers, Marc Breaux, Dee Dee Wood; film editor, William Reynolds; music, Richard Rodgers; lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein II.

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker.

Feature rated G; added material not rated.

DVD; Dolby 4.1 surround (English) or Dolby surround (English and French).

In English with optional French soundtrack; optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Academy Award winner,1965: Best picture, Best director, Best sound, Best film editing, Best scoring of music-adaptation.