Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305085331
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305085331
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 1998
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 160913
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: April 07, 1996
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Sure, everyone's seen The Sound of Music, but how about Flower Drum Song? Or State Fair, either the 1945 version (a remake of a 1933 nonmusical) or the 1962 re-remake with Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret, and Pat Boone? Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies is a comprehensive and entertaining 97-minute documentary surveying the film career of the beloved songwriting team and how their screen work was interwoven with their stage work. (State Fair was written directly for the screen before they began adapting their stage shows for film.) Host Shirley Jones (the ingenue in both Oklahoma! and Carousel) provides numerous trivia tidbits on most of the films, while segments on The King and I, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music are presented by those who appeared in them: Rita Moreno (Tuptim), Nancy Kwan (Linda Low), and Charmian Carr (Liesl), respectively. Also of interest will be original casting possibilities (James Dean in Oklahoma!, Marlon Brando in Carousel), rarely seen outtakes, live television performances, and clips from films that inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein's shows (including Rex Harrison as the king of Siam). Because Rodgers and Hammerstein's films were deeply involved in the development of widescreen techniques such as CinemaScope, this documentary is savvy enough to present its clips in letterboxed widescreen format, but that footage is occasionally grainy. Unfortunately, The Sound of Movies was filmed in 1995, four years before the release of sumptuous remasterings of six of these featured films. --David Horiuchi
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - a most entertaining dvd
Both my husband and I thoroughly enjoyed hearing once again the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein and
watching clips from movies that we saw many years ago. It all brought back pleasant memories and we've
decided that they just don't write movie musicals like they used to. And what a shame.
Rating:  - Big Mistake
I was looking for "The Sound Of Music". I guess I'll have to update my spectacles and sharpen my reading skills.
Rating:  - Disappointing
I'm sorry, this is not as good as the other reviews suggest.
Firstly, the outide of the package does not really tell you what is inside. Quote: "Here are without doubt, the greatest song-and-dance numbers ever seen on the silver screen..."
What we actually see are a bunch of snippets, outtakes, and auditions, all of which are of a certain interest, admittedly, but we don't get any complete performances, no doubt for copyright reasons. So, in fact, the CD contains only material that is often given away free to fill up the extra space on DVDs of feature films.
The cover also inaccurately describes Charmian Carr as a leading lady.In fact she played a supporting role in The Sound of Music, and that is about the sum of her movie career. I suspect that she was picked for the part to ensure that Julie Andrews was not outshon by a younger sexier actress. Andrews had lost the lead role in the move of My Fair Lady, in which she starred in London and Broadway because she was seen as not sufficiently attractive. Her subsequent success in Mary Poppins had put the lie to this, and here she was as the main love interest to Christopher Plummer.
Or, in the section about South Pacific, just before a segue into the opening of the song Bali Hai we are told that Juanita Hall won a Tony for her role in the stage version, but not told that her singing in the movie was overdubbed (at the insistence of Richard Rogers) by Muriel Smith who had starred onstage in the London ... Read More
Rating: - Sound of Movies a fine treat
Good variety, good pacing, good music - a fun, relaxing treat
Rating: - Wonderful for R&H Fans
Aside from the excellent documentary the extras are a great bonus-especially the screen tests. For the remake of STATE FAIR you get to see Ann-Margret's entire original Fox screen test, she sings Bill Bailey, Mack the Knife and in a test for the role of Margy she does a scene and sings It Might As Well Be Spring. Also included are test scenes for the part of Emily-the part she played in the movie. Andy Williams tests for the part of Pat (the reporter) with Barbara Eden as Margy and he sings a bit of All I Owe Ioway (he's from Iowa) and then does a great version of It Might As Well Be Spring. There's also something called Foreign Dubbing Test/The Sound of Music which is Marni Nixon singing most of the songs Julie Andrews sings in the movie. They don't explain exactly what it's for but it's a nice bonus. Mitzi Gaynor performs A Cockeyed Optimist and A Wonderful Guy in her test for South Pacific. There are also a bunch of Sound of Music tests as well. Since these aren't on the DVDs of the movies themselves they are a great addition for R&H movie fans.
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