Copyright notice on videodisc jacket (viewing copy, DAA 2296): The CBS/Fox Company ; 1989. Copyright notice on videodisc label (viewing copy, DAA 0371 and viewing copy, copy 2): Magnetic Video Corp. ; 1981. Copyright notice on videodisc label (viewing copy, DAA 2296): FoxVideo ; 1992. Copyright: Argyle Enterprises, Inc. & Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 2Mar65; LP3028. From the stage musical with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. LC copies are original release copy (ref print, CGB 8903-8908), 1981? videodisc reissue copy (viewing copy, DAA 0371 and viewing copy, copy, DAA 0372) and 1989? videodisc reissue copy (viewing copy, DAA 2296). On videodisc jacket (viewing copy, DAA 0371) and viewing copy, copy 2): Magnetic Video 1051-80. On videodisc jacket (viewing copy, DAA 2296): CBS/Fox Video 1051-85. On videodisc jacket: special wide-screen edition. Possible videodisc reissue date for viewing copy (DAA 0371) and viewing copy, copy 2 from copyright notice on videodisc label and possible videodisc reissue date for viewing copy (DAA 2296) from copyright notice on videodisc jacket. Sources used: videodisc jackets and labels. Summary taken from videodisc jackets. Cast: Julie Andrews (Maria), Christopher Plummer (Captain Von Trapp), Richard Haydn (Max Detweiler), Eleanor Parker (the Baroness), Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess).
Summary:
In 1939 Austria, Maria, a postulant at the Abbey in Salzburg, spends so much time in the mountains she neglects her duties. Convinced that Maria should leave the Abbey for a time, the Mother Abbess arranges for her to be the governess for the seven Von Trapp children. They are lively, good-natured children, but the widowed Captain Von Trapp runs his home with precision and discourages any frivolity. Tested by the children, Maria wins them over. When the Captain returns from Vienna with his fiancee, the Baroness, and Max Detweiler, an impresario who wants the children to enter the Salzburg Festival, Maria leaves because she is in love with the Captain. The Mother Abbess helps Maria realize that love is also holy and she is reunited with the Von Trapps. Using the Salzburg Festival as a cover, the family flees the Nazis and Austria.
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