The Sound of Music Live (2015) - full transcript

-♪ The hills are alive

-Next on "Great Performances,"

Rodgers and Hammerstein's
immortal classic,

"The Sound of Music,"
that was broadcast live

to millions of viewers
across the United Kingdom.

-♪ For a thousand years

-This lavish studio production
combines the songs

from the original
Broadway musical

with elements that were added
to the beloved movie version,

creating a whole new adaptation.

-♪ Something



-♪ Something

♪ Good

-♪ Till you find

♪ Your dream

-Join us for a new look
at Rodgers and Hammerstein's

"The Sound of Music," next.

-Where's Maria?
-I haven't seen her all day.

-Where's Maria?
-I haven't seen her, either.

-♪ My day in the hills
has come to an end ♪

♪ I know

♪ A star has come out

♪ To tell me it's time to go

♪ But deep in the
dark green shadows ♪

♪ Are voices
that urge me to stay ♪



♪ So I pause and I wait

♪ And I listen
for one more sound ♪

♪ For one more lovely thing
that the hills might say ♪

♪ The hills are alive

♪ With the sound of music

♪ With songs they have sung

♪ For a thousand years

♪ The hills fill my heart

♪ With the sound of music

♪ My heart wants to sing

♪ Every song it hears

♪ My heart wants to beat
like the wings of the birds ♪

♪ That rise from the lake
to the trees ♪

♪ My heart wants to sigh
like a chime that flies ♪

♪ From a church on a breeze

♪ To laugh like a brook

♪ When it trips and falls
over stones in its way ♪

♪ To sing through the night
like a lark ♪

♪ Who is learning to pray

♪ I go to the hills

♪ When my heart is lonely

♪ I know I will hear

♪ What I've heard before

♪ My heart will be blessed

♪ With the sound of music

♪ And I'll sing

♪ Once more

♪ I go to the hills

♪ When my heart is lonely

♪ I know I will hear

♪ What I've heard before

♪ My heart will be blessed

♪ With the sound of music

♪ And I'll sing

♪ Once more ♪

-I think we should be pleased
with our efforts.

Out of 28 postulants,

16 or 17 are ready
to enter the novitiate.

Well, let's consider
the doubtful ones again.

There's Irmgard.

-Reverend Mother, there is
no doubt about Irmgard.

The religious life
is no place for the pious.

-You mean the pretentiously
pious, Sister Berthe.

Christina?
-No.

-Hmm.

Then there's...Maria.

-Well, after last night,
there can be no doubt

in the Reverend Mother's mind
about Maria!

-I gave Maria permission
to leave the abbey for the day.

-I told you, Sister Berthe.

-Reverend Mother?
Maria's waiting.

-Ah, Sister Sophia.

The mistress of the postulants
and the mistress of the novices

do not seem to see
eye to eye about Maria.

How do you feel about her?
-I love her very dearly,

but she always seems to be
in trouble, doesn't she?

-Exactly what I say!

♪ She climbs a tree
and scrapes her knee ♪

♪ Her dress has got a tear

♪ She waltzes
on her way to Mass ♪

♪ And whistles on the stair

-♪ And underneath her wimple,
she has curlers in her hair ♪

-♪ I've even heard her singing
in the abbey ♪

-♪ She's always late
for chapel ♪

-♪ But her penitence is real

-♪ She's always late
for everything ♪

♪ Except for every meal

♪ I hate to have to say it,
but I very firmly feel ♪

-♪ Maria's not an asset
to the abbey ♪

-♪ I'd like to say a word
on her behalf ♪

-Then say it,
Sister Margaretta.

-♪ Maria makes me laugh

-♪ How do you solve a problem
like Maria? ♪

-♪ How do you catch a cloud
and pin it down? ♪

-♪ How do you find the word
that means Maria? ♪

-♪ A flibbertigibbet

-♪ A will-of-the wisp
-♪ A clown

-♪ Many a things you know
you'd like to tell her ♪

♪ Many a things
she ought to understand ♪

-♪ But how do you
make her stay ♪

-♪ And listen to all you say?

-♪ How do you keep a wave
upon the sand? ♪

-♪ Oh, how do you solve
a problem like Maria? ♪

-♪ How do you hold a moonbeam

♪ In your hand?

-♪ When I'm with her,
I'm confused ♪

♪ Out of focus, and bemused

♪ And I never know
exactly where I am ♪

-♪ Unpredictable as weather

♪ She's as flighty
as a feather ♪

-♪ She's a darling
-♪ She's a demon

- ♪ She's a lamb

-♪ She'll out-pester any pest,
drive a hornet from his nest ♪

-♪ She could throw a whirling
dervish out of whirl ♪

-♪ She is gentle
-♪ She is wild

-♪ She's a riddle
-♪ She's a child

-♪ She's a headache!
-♪ She's an angel

-♪ She's a girl

-♪ Many a thing you know
you'd like to tell her ♪

-♪ Many a thing
she ought to understand ♪

-♪ But how do you make her stay
and listen to all you say? ♪

-♪ How do you keep a wave
upon the sand? ♪

-♪ Oh, how do you solve
a problem like Maria? ♪

♪ How do you hold a moonbeam

♪ In your hand?

-Mother Abbess?

-Come here, my child.

Sit down, Maria.
I want to talk to you.

-Yes, about last night.

Reverend Mother, I was on
my knees most of the night

because I was late,
and after you'd been so kind

and given me
permission to leave.

-It wasn't about
your being late, Maria.

-I must've awakened
half the abbey

before Sister Margaretta
heard me and opened the gate.

-Maria.
Very few of us were asleep.

We could only think
that you'd lost your way.

And to be lost at night
on that mountain...

-Reverend Mother, I couldn't
be lost on that mountain.

That's my mountain.
I was brought up on it.

It was that mountain
that brought me to you.

-Oh?

-When I was a little girl,

I used to come down
the mountain, climb a tree,

and look over into your garden.

I'd see the sisters at work,

and I'd hear them sing
on their way to vespers.

Many times I went back up
that mountain in the dark,

singing all the way.

And that brings up
another transgression.

I have been singing
without your permission.

-Maria, it is only here
in the abbey

that there is a rule
about singing.

-Hmm. That's the hardest
rule of all for me.

-The day you were in the garden,

singing at the top
of your voice...

-Mother, it's that kind of song.

-...I came to the window,
and you stopped.

I wish you hadn't.

I used to sing that song
when I was a child.

Only...I can't quite remember.

Please.

-♪ Raindrops on roses
and whiskers on kittens ♪

♪ Bright copper kettles
and warm woolen mittens ♪

♪ Brown paper packages
tied up with strings ♪

♪ These are a few
of my favorite things ♪

-♪ Cream-colored ponies
and crisp apple strudels ♪

♪ Doorbells
-♪ And sleigh bells

-♪ And schnitzel with noodles

-♪ Wild geese that fly with
the Moon on their wings ♪

-♪ These are a few
of my favorite things ♪

-♪ Girls in white dresses
with blue satin sashes ♪

-♪ Snowflakes that stay
on my nose and eyelashes ♪

♪ Silver-white winters
that melt into springs ♪

-♪ These are a few
of my favorite things ♪

-♪ When the dog bites

♪ When the bee stings

♪ When I'm feeling sad

♪ I simply remember
my favorite things ♪

♪ And then I don't feel

♪ So bad

-♪ When the dog bites
-♪ When the bee stings

-♪ When I'm feeling sad

♪ I simply remember
my favorite things ♪

♪ And then I don't feel

♪ So bad

-Oh, Maria, in spite of what
you saw over the garden wall,

you weren't prepared
for the way we live, were you?

-No, Mother,
but I pray and I try.

-Tell me, Maria.

What is the most important
lesson you've learned here?

-To find out what is
the will of God and to do it.

-Even if it's hard to accept?

-Even then.

-Maria, it seems it's the will
of God that you leave us.

-Leave? Leave here?

-For a while only.

-Oh, no, don't send me away,
Mother, please!

This is what I want!
This is my life!

- But are you ready for it?

Perhaps if you go out
into the world again for a time,

you will return to us
knowing what we expect of you

and that we

do

expect it.

-I know what you expect, Mother,
and I'll do it!

I promise!
-Maria!

-If it is God's will.

Where am I to go?

-There's a family.

A family of seven children.

You like children,
and you're very good with them.

They need a governess
until September.

-Until September?

-Captain Von Trapp
is expecting you tomorrow.

He's a fine man and a brave one.

He was given the Maria Theresa
medal by the Emperor.

It was for heroism
in the Adriatic.

-Captain in the Navy.
Mother, he'll be very strict.

-Maria, you are not being sent
to his battleship.

God bless you, Maria.

-Reverend Mother,
have I your permission to sing?

♪ Girls in white dresses
with blue satin sashes ♪

I have been given
permission to sing.

♪ Snowflakes that stay
on my nose and eyelashes ♪

♪ Silver-white winters
that melt into springs ♪

♪ These are a few
of my favorite things ♪

♪ When the dog bites

♪ When the bee stings

♪ When I'm feeling sad

-Yes, sir?

-I was calling a housekeeper,
and she didn't answer.

Do you know why?

-Sometimes she
doesn't hear, sir.

Ah.

-Ah. Sorry, sir.
I was answering the telephone.

Good day, sir. We're happy
to have you home again.

-Why did the last
governess leave?

-Who knows?

She just said, "I've had
enough of this," and walked out.

-Why? Was Louisa
playing tricks again,

putting toads in her bed?

-She didn't complain
of that, sir.

-Well, there's another one
coming today,

and this one can't walk out.
-Oh?

-She's coming
from Nonnberg Abbey

with orders to stay
until September.

-Well, I hope you'll be
at home for a time, sir.

-Just until tomorrow.

The telephone call.
Was it for me?

-Uh, no, it was for Franz.

But before you arrived,
there was a call from Vienna --

a Frau Schrader.

I have her number in the pantry.
-I know the number.

Oh, I shall be back in about
a month with some guests.

-Yes, sir.
Do you know how many, sir?

-Just two. Herr Detweiler...

-Ah, Herr Detweiler.

-...and Frau Schrader.

-Who wanted me on the telephone?
-It was the post office.

-What?
-There's a telegram for you.

It'll be delivered at 7:00.
-7:00?

That gives me five hours
to be nervous.

-Well, with that scatterbrained
boy delivering telegrams...

-That's one thing
people are saying.

If the Germans did take over
Austria, we'd have efficiency.

-Don't let the Captain
hear you say that.

Ugh!

He never whistled for us
when his wife was alive.

-He's being the captain
of the ship again.

-Oh. I can't bear
being whistled for.

It's humiliating.

-In the Imperial Navy,

the bosun always
whistled for us.

-I wasn't in the Imperial Navy.
-Too bad.

You could've made a fortune.

Oh, it's you. Wait here.

-I am Captain Von Trapp.
You are Fraulein...?

-Maria. Maria Rainer.

-Now, Fraulein,
as to your duties here...

Would you mind
stepping over there?

Before the children meet you,
you will put on another dress.

-I haven't any other dress.

When we enter the abbey,

all our worldly clothes
are given to the poor.

-What about this one?
-The poor didn't want this one.

I would've made myself a dress,
but I wasn't given time.

I can make my own clothes.

-Good. Now, you will be
in charge of my children.

There are seven of them.

You will find out how far they
have progressed in their studies

and carry on from there.

Each morning will be spent
in the classroom,

each afternoon they march.

You will see that at all times
they conduct themselves

with decorum and orderliness.

The first rule in this house
is discipline.

-Yes, sir!

-This is your new governess,
Fraulein Maria.

As I sound your signal,

you will step forward
and repeat your name.

You, Fraulein, will listen
and learn their signal

so that you can call them
when you want them.

- Liesl!

- Friedrich!

- Louisa!

- Kurt!

- Brigitta!

- Marta.

-That's Gretl.

Now, Fraulein, let's see
how well you listened.

-Oh! I won't have to whistle
for them, Reverend Captain.

What I mean is I'll be
with them all the time.

-Not on all occasions.

This is a large house
and a large estate.

They have been taught
to come only when they
hear their signal.

Now, when I want you,
this is what you'll hear.

-Pardon me, sir, you won't
have to bother with a whistle,

because I couldn't answer to it.

-That's nonsense.

Everyone in this house
answers to a whistle.

I'll show you.

-Yes, sir?

-This is my orderly, my butler.

The new governess,
Fraulein Maria.

-Yes, sir?
-That is the executive officer,

Frau Schmidt, the housekeeper.

Fraulein Maria. Please be sure
that her room is ready.

-Yes, sir.

-Well, I shall now leave you
with the children.

You are in command.

-Pardon me, sir.
I don't know how to address

you.

-You will call me Captain.

-Thank you, Captain.

Here's your whistle, Captain.

I won't be needing it.
Captain.

Well, now that there's just us,

would you tell me
your names again

and tell me how old you are?

Now you're...?
-I'm Liesl.

I'm 16, and I don't
need a governess.

-I'm glad you told me.
We'll just be friends.

-I'm Friedrich. I'm 14.
I'm a boy.

-Boy?
Why, you're almost a man.

-I'm Brigitta.

-You didn't tell me
how old you are...Louisa.

-I'm Brigitta.

She's Louisa,
and she's 13 years old.

And you're smart.

I'm 9, and I think your dress

is the ugliest one
I've ever saw.

-Brigitta, you mustn't say
a thing like that!

-Why not?
Don't you think it's ugly?

-Well, if I did think so,
I wouldn't say so.

I'm Kurt. I'm 11.
Well, almost.

-I'm Marta.
I'm going to be 7 on Tuesday,

and I would like a pink parasol
for my birthday.

-Pink's my favorite color, too.

And you're Gretl.

I'm going to tell you something.

I've never been
a governess before.

How do I start?

-You mean you don't know
anything about

being a governess?
-No.

-Well, the first thing
you have to do

is to tell Father
to mind his own business.

-No, Louisa, don't!
I like her.

-What's in here?
-My guitar.

-What did you bring this for?
-For when we all sing together.

-But we don't sing.

-Well, of course you sing.
Everybody sings.

What songs do you know?

-Well, we don't know any songs.

-You don't?
-No.

-Well, now I know
where to start.

I'm going to teach you
how to sing.

♪ Let's start
at the very beginning ♪

♪ A very good place to start

♪ When you read
you begin with ♪

-♪ A-B-C

-♪ When you sing,
you begin with do-re-mi ♪

-♪ Do-re-mi

-♪ Do-re-mi

♪ The first three notes
just happen to be do-re-mi ♪

-♪ Do-re-mi

-♪ Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti

Come. I'll make it easier.
Listen.

♪ Doe, a deer, a female deer

♪ Ray, a drop of golden sun

♪ Me, a name I call myself

♪ Far, a long,
long way to run ♪

♪ Sew, a needle
pulling thread ♪

♪ La, a note to follow sew

♪ Tea, a drink
with jam and bread ♪

♪ That will bring us back
to do, oh-oh-oh ♪

-♪ Doe
-♪ A deer, a female deer

-♪ Ray
-♪ A drop of golden sun

-♪ Me
-♪ A name I call myself

-♪ Far
-♪ A long, long way to run

-♪ Sew
-♪ A needle pulling thread

-♪ La
-♪ A note to follow sew

-♪ Tea
-♪ A drink with jam and bread

-♪ That will bring us back to

-♪ Doe, a deer, a female deer

♪ Ray, a drop of golden sun

♪ Me, a name I call myself

♪ Far, a long,
long way to run ♪

♪ Sew, a needle
pulling thread ♪

♪ La, a note to follow sew

♪ Tea, a drink
With jam and bread ♪

♪ That will bring us
back to do ♪

♪ Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do,
so-do ♪

-Is that what you call a song?

Do-re-mi-fa-so and so on?

-No, do-re-mi-fa-so and so on

are only the tools
we use to build a song.

And once we have these notes
in our heads,

we can sing
a million different tunes.

-How?
-By mixing them up.

Listen.

♪ So-do-la-fa-mi-do-re

Now you do it.

-♪ So-do-la-fa-mi-do-re

-♪ So-do-la-ti-do-re-do

-♪ So-do-la-ti-do-re-do

-But it doesn't mean anything.
-So we put in words.

One word for every note.

♪ When you know

♪ The notes to sing

♪ You can sing

♪ Most any thing

All together!

-♪ When you know

♪ The notes to sing

♪ You can sing

♪ Most any thing

-♪ Do
-♪ Re
-♪ Mi

-♪ Fa
-♪ So
-♪ La

-♪ Ti
-♪ Do, do

-♪ Ti
-♪ La
-♪ So

-♪ Fa
-♪ Mi
-♪ Re

-♪ Do
-♪ Mi-mi, mi

-♪ So-so

-♪ Re
-♪ Fa-fa

-♪ La
-♪ Ti-ti

-♪ Do
-♪ Mi-mi, mi

-♪ So-so
-♪ Re
-♪ Fa-fa

-♪ La
-♪ Ti-ti

-♪ Do, mi-mi, mi, so-so
-♪ When you know the

-♪ Re, fa-fa, la, ti-ti
-♪ When you know the

-♪ Do, mi-mi, mi, so-so
-♪ Notes to sing

-♪ Re, fa-fa, la, ti-ti
-♪ Notes to sing

-♪ Do, mi-mi, mi, so-so
-♪ You can sing

-♪ Re, fa-fa, la, ti-ti
-♪ You can sing

-♪ Most any thing

-♪ Doe, a deer, a female deer

♪ Ray, a drop of golden sun

♪ Me, a name I call myself

♪ Far, a long,
long way to run ♪

-♪ Sew, a needle
pulling thread ♪

-♪ A needle pulling thread

-♪ La
-♪ A note to follow sew

-♪ A note to follow sew

-♪ Tea
-♪ A drink with jam and bread

-♪ Jam and bread

-♪ That will bring us back to

♪ So-do-la-fa-mi-do-re

♪ So-do-la-fa

-♪ Ti
-♪ La-so

♪ So-la

♪ Ti-do

♪ So-do!

-Good night, Rolf.

-Liesl.
-Yes.

-You don't have to say
good night

just 'cause your father's home.

-How did you know
my father was home?

-I have a way of knowing things.

-You're wonderful.
-Not really.

-Yes, you are.

I mean, how did you know two
days ago that you would be here

at just this time tonight
with a telegram for Franz?

-Every year on this day he
always gets a birthday telegram

from his sister.

-You see? You

are

wonderful.

-Can I come again
tomorrow night?

-Rolf, you can't be sure
you're going to have a telegram

to deliver tomorrow night.

-I could come here by mistake --

with a telegram
for Colonel Schneider.

He's here from Berlin.

He's staying with
the Gauleiter, but I...

No one's supposed to know
he's here.

-Don't you tell your father.
-Why not?

-Well, your father's
pretty Austrian.

-We're all Austrian.

-Some people think
we ought to be German.

They're mad at those
who don't think so.

They're getting ready to...

Well, let's hope your father
doesn't get into any trouble.

-Oh, don't worry about Father.
He was decorated for bravery.

-I know.
It's not him that I worry about.

The only one I care about
is his daughter.

-Why?
-How old are you, Liesl?

- Sixteen.

-What?
What's wrong with that?

♪ You wait, little girl,
on an empty stage ♪

♪ For fate to turn
the light on ♪

♪ Your life, little girl,
is an empty page ♪

♪ That men will want
to write on ♪

-♪ To write on

-♪ You are 16 going on 17

♪ Baby, it's time to think

♪ Better beware,
be canny and careful ♪

♪ Baby, you're on the brink

♪ You are 16 going on 17

♪ Fellows will fall in line

♪ Eager young lads
and roués and cads ♪

♪ Will offer you food and wine

♪ Totally unprepared are you

♪ To face a world of men

♪ Timid and shy
and scared are you ♪

♪ Of things beyond your ken

♪ You need someone
older and wiser ♪

♪ Telling you what to do

♪ I am 17 going on 18

♪ I'll take care of you

-♪ I am 16 going on 17

♪ I know that I'm naive

♪ Fellows I meet
may tell me I'm sweet ♪

♪ And, willingly, I believe

♪ I am 16 going on 17

♪ Innocent as a rose

♪ Bachelor dandies,
drinkers of brandies ♪

♪ What do I know of those?

♪ Totally unprepared am I

♪ To face a world of men

♪ Timid and shy
and scared am I ♪

♪ Of things beyond my ken

♪ I need someone
older and wiser ♪

♪ Telling me what to do

♪ You are 17 going on 18

♪ I'll depend on you

-Fraulein Maria?

Hmm. The Captain's
going to Vienna tomorrow.

I have this material he ordered
for a new dress for you.

-Oh, how nice of him.

Even before it's made,

this is the prettiest dress
I've ever had.

I hope the Captain will like it,

because I want to ask him
for more material.

-More?
-Not for me, for the children,

for play clothes.

The Von Trapp children
aren't supposed to play.

The Captain doesn't like them
to get dirty.

-But they're children.
They have to climb trees,
roll on the grass.

-The Captain believes
the best exercise is marching.

The children
will continue to march.

Well, hope you find
your room comfortable.

-Yes, thank you.
There'll be new curtains

at the window and the alcove,
and they'll be hung tomorrow.

-But these curtains
are very good.

-There will be new curtains.

-Will the Captain be away long?
-Oh, I don't know.

Of course, he has to come home

every time he hires
a new governess.

I sometimes think those children
get rid of their governesses

just because they want
to see their father.

-He must want to see them, too.
-Well, since his wife died,

they remind him
too much of her.

Oh, you can put that away.
You won't be using that.

-Why not?

-Well, the Captain
won't have music here.

-He won't have music?

-He used to love music.

There were wonderful
evenings here.

His wife would sing, and he'd
play the violin or the guitar.

But he's shut all that
out of his life now.

-So that's why
he's the way he is.

But not to have music,
that's wrong for him

and wrong for the children, too.

-It'll work out.

The Captain may well marry again
before the summer's over.

-That would change everything.
They'd have a mother again.

-It's going to rain.
You'd better close your window.

-Dear God.

I know now that you have sent me
here on a mission.

I must help these children
to love their new mother

and prepare them to win her love

so that she will never
want them to leave her.

And I pray that this will become
a happy family in thy sight.

God bless the Captain,
God bless Liesl and Friedrich,

Louisa, Brigitta, Marta,
and little Gretl.

And, oh, yes,
I forgot the other boy.

What's his name?
Well, God bless What's His Name.

God bless the Reverend Mother
and Sister Margaretta

and everybody
at Nonnberg Abbey.

And now, dear God,
what about Liesl?

Help her to know
that I am her friend.

Help her to tell me
what she's up to.

-Are you going to tell on me?
-Help me to be understanding

so that I may guide
her footsteps.

In the name of
the Father, the Son,

and the Holy Ghost, amen.

-I-I was out taking a walk,

and somebody locked the doors
earlier than usual.

I didn't want to wake anyone up,

so when I saw
your window was open...

Oh, you're not going to
tell Father, are you?

-Did you climb that trellis
to get up here?!

-It's how we always
used to get into this room

to play tricks on the governess.

-Liesl...

were you out walking
all by yourself?

You know, if we wash
that dress out tonight,

nobody would notice it tomorrow,

and all this will just
be between you and me.

You could put this on.

Take your dress in there,
put it to soak in the bathtub.

Then come back here,

sit on the edge of my bed,
and we'll have a talk.

-I told you today
I didn't need a governess.

Well...maybe I do.

--Oh! It's you, Gretl!

Are you afraid? Oh.

Oh, you're not afraid
of a thunderstorm, are you?

You just stay right here
with me. Where are the others?

-They're asleep.
They're not scared.

-Come, all of you,
up on the bed.

Now all we have to do
is wait for the boys.

-We won't see them.
-Boys are brave.

- Aah!

-You boys aren't scared, too,
are you?

-Oh, no. We just wanted
to be sure you weren't.

-Was this your idea, Friedrich?
-No, it was Kurt's.

-That's it -- Kurt! That's who
I left out. God bless Kurt!

Maybe if we all sing
loud enough,

we won't hear the thunder.

♪ High on a hill
was a lonely goatherd ♪

♪ Lay-ee-odl, lay-ee-odl,
lay-hee-hoo ♪

♪ Loud was the voice
of the lonely goatherd ♪

♪ Lay-ee-odl, lay-ee-odl-oo

♪ Folks in a town
that was quite remote heard ♪

♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee,
odl-lay-hee-hoo ♪

♪ Lusty and clear was
the goatherd's throat heard ♪

♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee, odl-oo

-♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-lee-o

♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-ay

♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-lee-o

♪ Lay-dee, odl-lee-o-lay

-♪ A prince on a bridge
of a castle moat heard ♪

♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee,
odl-lay-hee-hoo ♪

♪ Men on a road
with a load to tote heard ♪

-♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee, odl-oo

-♪ Men in the midst
of a table d'hote heard ♪

-♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee,
odl-lay-hee-hoo ♪

-♪ Men drinking beer with
the foam afloat heard ♪

-♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee, odl-oo

♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-lee-o

♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-lee

♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-ay-o

♪ Lay-dee, odl-lee-o-lay

-♪ One little girl with
a pale pink coat heard ♪

♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee,
odl-lay-hee-hoo ♪

♪ She yodeled back
to the lonely goatherd ♪

-♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee, odl-oo

-♪ Soon her mama with
a gleaming gloat heard ♪

♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee,
odl-lay-hm-hm ♪

♪ What a duet for
a girl and goatherd ♪

-♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee, odl-oo

♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-lee-o

♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-lee

♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-ay-o

♪ Lay-dee, odl-lee-o-lay

♪ Happy are they,
lay-dee-o-lay-dee-lay-o ♪

♪ O-lay-dee,
o-lay-dee-lay-dee-o ♪

♪ Soon the duet
will become a trio ♪

♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee, odl-oo

-♪ Odl-lay-hee
-♪ Odl-lay-hee

-♪ Odl-lay-hee
-♪ Odl-lay-hee

-♪ Odl-lay-hee-hee
-♪ Odl-lay-hee-hee

-♪ Odl-lay-hee
-♪ Odl-lay-hee

-♪ Odl-lay, odl-lay
-♪ Odl-lay, odl-lay

-♪ Odl-lay, odl-lay
-♪ Odl-lay, odl-lay

-♪ Odl-lay, odl-lay
-♪ Odl-lay, odl-lay

♪ Odl-lay, odl-lay, odl-lay

Whoo!

-Oh, Georg, those mountains.

Well, they're magnificent.

-Yes. They're not like
any other mountains.

They're friendly.

-Oh, and look. That green
stretch of woods over there.

When the wind moves through it,
it's like a restless sea.

I'm beginning to understand you
better, now that I see you here.

You know, you are a little
like those mountains.

Well, except that
you keep moving.

How can you be away from
this place as much as you are?

-Maybe I've been searching
for a reason

to come back here to stay.

-Georg, I like it here
very much.

-Max can't still be
on the telephone.

I know he's desperate
about getting singers for
the Kaltzberg Festival, but...

You like it here?

-Of course, we'd have to
spend some time in Vienna.

I have Heinrich's estate
to look after.

-I thought that was
a corporation now.

-It is, and I'm president.

-Well, I can't see you
sitting behind a desk.

-Oh? Oh, well, of course,
I wear a business suit,

and I smoke a very big cigar.

-Sorry I took so long.
-Ah, any luck?

-Ooh, how do you like this
for the Kaltzberg Festival --

the finest choral group
in Austria,

the greatest mixed quartet
in Europe,

and the best soprano
in the world.

-That's something
I'd love to hear.

-Ah, me too.

All I've got up to now is
a basso who isn't even profundo.

- Max, you always come
up with a good festival concert.

-And why? Because my motto

is never start out looking for
the people you wind up getting.

That is why I have been
telephoning Rome,

Paris, Stockholm, London...

-On Georg's telephone,
of course.

-How else could I afford it?
Why am I up here?

-I hoped it was
because you liked me.

-Of course I like you.

Why shouldn't I like you?
You live like a king.

You have an excellent
wine cellar.

-Max!
-I like rich people!

I like the way they live.

I like the way that I live
when I'm among them.

Speaking as a government
official, Georg, I...

Is there a cathedral near here?

-That's our abbey.
Nonnberg Abbey.

-They have a choir?
-A beautiful one.

-Good! In the next few days,

I have to visit all
these towns around here,

listen to saengerbunds,
quartets, choirs --

-You'll be here for meals,
won't you?

-Yes. Now, tell me,
who lives in that

dilapidated castle down there?
Rumpelstiltskin?

- Baron Elberfeld,
the oldest family in the valley.

-Ah, I'd like to meet him.

Well, I'd like to meet
all your friends.

Georg, why don't you throw
a dinner for me while I'm here?

Nothing very much.
Just something terribly lavish.

-Well, I -- I wouldn't know
who to invite.

Today, it's difficult
to tell who's a friend
and who's an enemy.

-Now isn't a good time
to make enemies.

So let's make some friends!

-I can't understand what's
happened to the children.

-You're not worried
about them, are you?

-They should've been here
to welcome you.

-Oh. Well, it couldn't have
been an intentional slight.

They haven't even met me yet.

-Forgive me.
I'll try to find them.

-So, Elsa, have you
made Georg's mind up yet?

Is he gonna marry you?

-Oh, yes.
He just hasn't admitted it yet.

No, there seems to be something
standing in his way.

-You don't know what it is?
-No.

-I do.
-What?

-It's very simple.

It's money.
-Money?

-Yes, you see, he is very,
very rich, and so are you.

-Max, it's...

-♪ In all the famous
love affairs ♪

♪ The lovers have to struggle

♪ In garret rooms
away upstairs ♪

♪ The lovers starve
and snuggle ♪

♪ They're famous
for misfortune ♪

♪ Which they seem
to have no fear of ♪

♪ While lovers
who are very rich ♪

♪ You very seldom hear of

-Not a sign of them anywhere.

-♪ No little shack
do you share with me ♪

♪ We do not flee
from a mortgagee ♪

♪ Nary a care
in the world have we ♪

-♪ How can love survive?

-♪ You're fond of bonds,
and you own a lot ♪

♪ I have a plane
and a diesel yacht ♪

-♪ Plenty of nothing
you haven't got ♪

-♪ How can love survive?

-♪ No rides for us
on the top of a bus ♪

♪ In the face
of the freezing breezes ♪

-♪ You'll reach your goals
in your comfy old Rolls ♪

♪ Or in one of your Mercedeses

-♪ Far, very far
off the beam are we ♪

♪ Quaint and bizarre
as a team are we ♪

♪ Two millionaires
with a dream are we ♪

♪ But we'll keep romance alive

♪ Two millionaires
with a dream are we ♪

♪ We'll make our love

♪ Survive

♪ No little cold-water flat
have we ♪

♪ Warmed by the glow
of insolvency ♪

-♪ Up to your necks
in security ♪

♪ How can love survive?

-♪ How can I show
what I feel for you? ♪

♪ I cannot go out
and steal for you ♪

♪ I cannot die
like Camile for you ♪

♪ How can love survive?

-♪ You millionaires
with financial affairs ♪

♪ Are too busy
for simple pleasures ♪

♪ When you are poor,
it is

toujours l'amour

♪ For

l'amour

all the poor
have leisure ♪

-♪ Caught in our gold-plated
chains are we ♪

♪ Lost in our wealthy
domains are we ♪

♪ Trapped by our
capital gains are we ♪

-♪ You'll keep romance alive

♪ Trapped by your
capital gains are you ♪

-♪ You'll make your love
-♪ We'll make our love

-♪ Survive

-What do you want?

-Oh, Captain.
I didn't see you.

I mean, I didn't know.

Heil!
-Who are you?

-I, uh, have a telegram
for Herr Detweiler.

I am Herr Detweiler.

-You delivered your telegram.
Now get out.

-Oh, Georg, he's just a boy.

-I'm an Austrian.
I will not be heiled.

-Oh, Georg, why don't you
look at things the way I do?

What's gonna happen
is gonna happen.

Just be sure
it doesn't happen to you.

-Max, it's a good thing
you haven't any character,

because if you had,
I'm convinced I'd hate you.

- You couldn't
hate me. I'm too loveable.

-Herr Detweiler,
there's a call for you.

-It's from --
-I'll take it.

-Well, hurry up! Ohh!
Oh, Captain, you're home!

- Straight line!

Get cleaned up
and report back here.

At once.

Fraulein, where did they get
these abominations?

Out of a nightmare?

-No, out of some curtains,

the curtains that used to
hang in my bedroom.

There was plenty of wear
left in them.

-Just -- Just -- Just a moment.
Do you mean to say the people

of the neighborhood have seen my
children wearing old curtains?

-Yes, they've
become very popular.

-Everyone smiles at them.
-I don't wonder.

-They say, "There go
Captain Von Trapp's children."

-My children have always
been a credit to my name.

-Oh, but, Captain, they weren't.

They were just unhappy
little marching machines.

-I don't care to hear from you
about my children!

-You must hear from someone!

You're not home long enough
to know them!

-I said I don't want to hear!

-I know you don't,
but you've got to!

Take Liesl.
Liesl isn't a child anymore.

And if you keep treating her
as one, Captain,

you're going to have
a mutiny on your hands.

And Friedrich --

Friedrich's afraid
to be himself.

He's just shy. He's aloof.

He needs you.
He needs your confidence.

-Don't tell me about my son.

-Brigitta could tell you
about him.

She could tell you a lot more
if you got to know her,

because she notices things,
and she always tells the truth,

especially when you don't
want to hear it.

Kurt is sensitive, he's easily
hurt, and you ignore him.

You brush him aside
the way you do all of them.

I haven't finished yet!

Louisa wants
to have a good time.

You've just got to let her
have a good time.

Marta I don't know about yet,

but somebody has to
find out about her.

And little Gretl
just wants to be loved.

Oh, please, Captain, love Gretl.

Love all of them.
They need you!

-Stop.

Stop it.

You will pack your things
and return to the abbey
as soon as you can.

-I'm sorry.

-♪ The hills are alive
with the sound of music ♪

-I shouldn't have said those
things in the way I said them.

-After you've gone, they'll --
What is that?

-Singing.
-Whose singing?

-♪ With songs they have sung
for a thousand years ♪

-The children.
-My children singing?

-I wanted them to sing for
Frau Schrader when they met her.

-♪ The hills fill my heart

♪ With the sound of music

-♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah

-♪ My heart wants to sing
every song it hears ♪

-♪ Every song it hears

-♪ My heart wants to beat

♪ Like the wings
of the birds that rise ♪

♪ From the lake to the trees
-♪ From the lake to the trees

-♪ My heart wants to sigh
like a chime that flies ♪

-♪ From a church on a breeze

-♪ I go to the hills
-♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah

-♪ When my heart is lonely

-♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah

-♪ I know I will hear

-♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah

-♪ What I've heard before

♪ My heart will be blessed

♪ With the sound of music

-♪ Ahh-ahh

-♪ And I'll sing

-♪ Once more

- Edelweiss. Ohh!

Georg, why didn't you tell me

how enchanting
your children are?

-Children, I'd like to have you
show Frau Schrader the gardens.

-Oh, yes!
Yes, show me the gardens.

I want to see everything.
And with all of you, too.

Now, I don't know
any of your names yet,

but, well, that doesn't matter,
does it?

I'm sure I won't get them right
for a very long time.

-My name is Marta.
-It is not!

-My

name's Marta.
She's Louisa.

-You were right.

I don't know my own children.

-They're waiting to know you.

They want so much to.

After I've gone --
-No.

I want you to stay.

-If I can be of any help.

-You have helped already.

You have brought music
back into my home.

I had forgotten.

♪ To laugh like a brook

♪ When it trips and falls
over stones in its way ♪

-♪ To sing through the night

♪ Like a lark
who is learning to pray ♪

♪ I go to the hills

♪ When my heart is lonely

♪ I know I will hear

♪ What I've heard before

♪ My heart will be blessed

♪ With the sound of music

-♪ And I'll sing

♪ Once

♪ More

-Hello.

I came back to congratulate you.
The Captain was really moved.

-He's asked me to stay on
with the children.

-Yes, so you're staying on?

-Then I go back to the abbey.
-The abbey?

-I'm going to be a nun.
-How nice.

Well, um, when you get back
to the abbey, you'll --

you'll think of us.

-I'll pray for you.

-That's right. Now, you must
do that for all the guests.

Come along, children.
The party's started.

-Frau Schmidt,
will you make my bow?

We've never had a party
in our house before.

-Ooh, yes, there used to be
lots of parties here.

-Friedrich and I used to
sneak out and watch them

from the top of the stairs.

-I remember the music.

-Now, go ahead, children,
and mind your manners.

-Come along.

-I remember
the beautiful ladies,

and everybody loved them.

-There was one lady,
the most beautiful of all.

I think she was here
all the time.

-Yes, Louisa.

Go.

-But be careful
what you say, Baron.

You have German blood,
haven't you?

-I am not a German.
I am Austrian.

-There's going to be Anschluss!

I warn you.
And everyone like you.

And that goes for --
-It's, uh,

much more pleasant
on the terrace.

-Elberfeld, it's very
nice to have you and
the Baroness here again.

-Frau Schrader
is charming, Georg.

-She's just coming down.
-We'll find you on the terrace.

Please.

-Father?

I don't think these people
are having a very good time.

-Half the people I invited
aren't speaking
to the other half.

-Well, maybe they're
having a good time

not

speaking to each other.

-Kurt, I haven't danced
the Laendler

since I was a little girl.
-Oh, you remember it.

-No, I haven't danced since --
-Come.

You said the left hand
behind the back.

-Yes, that's right, but first,
the boy and girl meet.

-Yes.

-They go for a little stroll.

--No, that's wrong, Kurt.

Let me show you.

-I don't remember any more.

-Well, th--
that's the way it's done, Kurt.

-Your face is all red.

-Guess I'm not
very used to dancing.

-Hello.
-Good evening, Frau Schrader.

-Hello, Uncle Max.
-Ohh!

-We're having a party.
-Good!

Tell your father
it's sure to be a success.

I'm

here.

Elsa, you are without a doubt

the most beautiful corporation
president in the entire world.

-Max, you're back and, as usual,
just in time for dinner.

-Georg, did you think you could
give a gala without me?

-Oh, dear,
now we have an odd man.

-A little odd but charming.

-Oh, Liesl,
run and ask Frau Schmidt

to set two more places.

I want to seat Fraulein Maria.

-Two places?
-We need another woman.

-Oh. Liesl.
-Oh, no, she's much too young.

I'll ask Maria.
-You can't be serious.

-But of course.
-But she's a nursemaid.

-I don't think of her that way.

-I mean, I don't mind,
but your friends --

you can't ask them
to dine with Maria.

-Why not?
-Oh, Elsa, tell him why not.

-Max, can you change in a hurry?

-Yes, Max.
We can use you tonight.

-It's very important that you
children like Frau Schrader.

-I like her, all right.
Why is it important?

Well, I think she's
going to be your new mother.

-Oh, Fraulein, Father's
never going to marry her.

Why, he -- he couldn't.
-Why not?

-Because he's in love with you.

-Now, Brigitta, that's just --
-You must know that.

-Brigitta, no.
-Remember the other night

when we were all
sitting on the floor,

singing the "Edelweiss" song
you taught us?

After we finished, you laughed
at him for forgetting the words.

But he didn't forget the words.

He just stopped singing
to look at you.

And when he speaks to you,
the way his voice sounds,

and the way you looked at him
just now when you were dancing,

you're in love with him.

-One more dance, Gretl,
and then bed, hm?

Ah, Fraulein Maria,

you're not going to have dinner
with the children tonight.

You're going to have dinner
down here with us.

It's all arranged.
You'll have to hurry.
You'll have to change.

-Uh, Georg,
I've asked the children

to say good night
the way they did last night.

-No, Elsa, not here.
-Oh, no, please, Georg.

The way they did it for me,
it was so sweet.

-No, no,
not in front of strangers.

-Please, Georg. For me?

Please.

This way.

-Presto chango!
-Max, you're just in time.

Children, now.

-♪ There's a sad
sort of clanging ♪

♪ From the clock in the hall

♪ And the bells
in the steeple, too ♪

♪ And up in the nursery,
an absurd little bird ♪

♪ Is popping out
to say "Cuckoo" ♪

- ♪ Cuckoo, cuckoo

-♪ Regretfully, they tell us
but firmly they compel us ♪

♪ To say goodbye

-♪ Cuckoo

-♪ To you

-♪ So long, farewell,
auf Wiedersehen, good night ♪

-♪ I hate to go and leave
this pretty sight ♪

-♪ So long, farewell,
auf Wiedersehen, adieu ♪

-♪ Adieu, adieu to you
and you and you ♪

-♪ So long, farewell,
au revoir, auf Wiedersehen ♪

-♪ I'd like to stay and taste
my first champagne ♪

No?
-No.

-♪ So long, farewell,
auf Wiedersehen, goodbye ♪

-♪ I leave and heave a sigh
and say goodbye ♪

♪ Goodby-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-e

-♪ I'm glad to go

♪ I cannot tell a lie

♪ I flit, I float

♪ I fleetly flee, I fly

-♪ The sun has gone to bed

♪ And so must I

-♪ So long, farewell

♪ Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

♪ Goodbye

♪ Goodbye

♪ Goodbye

-♪ Goodbye

-Ladies and gentlemen,
dinner is served.

-Excellent. Please.

-Elsa, they're extraordinary!
-I know.

Fraulein Maria
taught them to do it.

-I've been looking all over
Austria for something

just like this for the festival,
and I-I find it right here.

-Ah, now, wait a minute, Max.

-A singing group of seven
children all in one family.

-Max, Georg didn't even
want them to sing

in front of the guests tonight.

I had to persuade him.
-Ah, then you have influence.

You must speak to him.
-Max.

-It's for the good of Austria!

And it wouldn't do me any harm.

-Maria has asked to see you.

I know it has taken her
a long time.

-I waited till she wanted
to come to me.

-It's strange.

She's happy to be here,
but she's unhappy, too.

-Why did they send her back?
Do you know?

-She doesn't speak.

She hasn't spoken
except in prayer.

-I shall see her.

-Maria.

-This must have been a trying
experience for you.

-It was, Reverend Mother.

-Has it taught you anything?

-I've learned I never want
to leave these walls again.

-Why did they send you
back to us?

-They didn't send me back.
I left.

I left without telling them
I was going,

without saying goodbye.

-Sit down, Maria.

Maria, what happened?
Why did you do this?

-I was frightened.
-Frightened?

-I was confused. I felt --

I never felt that way before.
I couldn't stay.

And I knew that here
I would be away from it,

that here I would be safe.

-Maria, our abbey is not
to be used as an escape.

What is it you can't face?

-I can't face him again.

-Maria, are you in love
with Captain Von Trapp?

-I don't know. I don't know.
-Tell me about it, child.

-Brigitta said that I was

and that her father
was in love with me.

And then there he was, and
we were looking at each other.

I could hardly breathe!

And I knew I couldn't stay.

-But do you like him?
-Oh, yes.

-And did you let him see
how you felt?

-If I did,
I didn't know that I did.

That's what's been torturing me.
I was there on God's errand.

To have asked for the Captain's
love would've been wrong.

I don't know, Mother.
I do know this.

I'm ready at this very moment
to take the vows of poverty,

obedience, and chastity.

-Maria...

the love of a man and a woman
is holy, too.

You were born
of happiness, of love.

And, my child...

you have a great capacity
to love.

What you must find out is,

how does God want you
to spend your life?

-I've pledged my life
to God's service!

I've pledged my life to God!

-My daughter,
if you love this man,

it doesn't mean
you love God less.

You must find out.
You must go back.

-Oh, no, Mother,
please don't ask me to do that.

Please let me stay here.

-Maria, these walls were not
made to shut out problems.

You have to face them.

You have to find the life
you were born to live.

-How do I find it?

-You look for it.

♪ Climb ev'ry mountain

♪ Search high and low

♪ Follow ev'ry byway

♪ Every path you know

♪ Climb ev'ry mountain

♪ Ford ev'ry stream

♪ Follow ev'ry rainbow

♪ Till you find your dream

♪ A dream that will need

♪ All the love you can give

♪ Every day of your life

♪ For as long as you live

♪ Climb ev'ry mountain

♪ Ford ev'ry stream

♪ Follow ev'ry rainbow

♪ Till you find your dream

♪ A dream that will need

♪ All the love you can give

♪ Every day of your life

♪ For as long as you live

♪ Climb ev'ry mountain

♪ Ford ev'ry stream

♪ Follow ev'ry byway

♪ Till you find your

♪ Dr-e-e-e-e-e-eam

-♪ One little girl in
a pale pink coat heard ♪

-♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee,
odl-lay-hee-hoo ♪

-♪ She yodeled back
to the lonely goatherd ♪

-♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee, odl-oo

-♪ Soon her mama
with a gleaming gloat heard ♪

-♪ What a duet for
a girl and goatherd ♪

-♪ Lay-ee, odl-lay-ee, odl-oo

♪ O-ho, lay-dee, odl-lee-o

-♪ Oh-ho...

-Oh. All right,
well, let's do some --

Let's do some serious
singing now. Shall we?

Liesl.

-♪ Do
-♪ Me

-♪ So
-♪ Do

-Okay, that's nice.

That -- That's very nice.
Except it's no good.

I want you to imagine
you're standing

on the stage
of a big concert hall.

-What concert hall?
-Any concert hall.

Maybe Kaltzberg Concert Hall,

but a concert hall
full of people.

Now, let's try one more time.

-♪ Do
-♪ Me

-♪ So
-♪ Do

-Oh, Gretl, darling,
why won't you sing loudly?

-I've got a sore finger.

-Oh, which one?

There, now. Mmm-mmm!

Now you can sing loudly
for Uncle Max.

On the night of the party,

you sang so beautifully,
with such spirit!

Shall we try one more time?

-♪ Do
-♪ Me

-♪ So
-♪ Do

-They wanted to sing for me,
the darlings,

but they don't sing
as well as they did.

-We need Fraulein Maria.
-We do

not

need Fraulein Maria.

You can sing
just as well with me.

-But, Georg, I have
experience with choirs,

quartets, glee clubs --
-Max, please.

Now, what would you
like to sing?

♪ Doe, a deer, a female deer

-Fraulein Maria
always started --

-We are not to mention
Fraulein Maria.

-Come on, Max.
I feel like a brisk walk.

-Ah, that's just what I need.
Is anyone using the car?

-Now, what are you
going to sing?

-♪ The hills are alive

♪ With the sound of music

-♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah

-♪ With songs they have sung

♪ For a thousand years

-No. No, not that.

Louisa, did you play
any of your tricks,

any of your jokes
on Fraulein Maria?

-Only those
she liked to laugh at.

-Well, something must've
happened for her to leave

without even saying goodbye.

-Isn't Fraulein Maria
coming back?

-No, darling, I don't think so.

-But she was the best governess
we ever had.

-You're not going to have
a governess anymore.

-Good.
-I'm not sure that's good.

-You're going to have
a new mother.

-A new mother? Frau Schrader?
-Yes.

It was all settled last night.
I'm very happy.

Well, it's time
for your afternoon walk.

-When Fraulein Maria
wanted to feel better,

she used to sing that song.

Do you remember?

-Yes.
-All right. Let's try it.

-♪ Raindrops on roses

♪ And whiskers on kittens

♪ Bright copper kettles

♪ And warm woolen mittens

♪ Brown paper packages

♪ Tied up with strings

♪ These are a few
of my favorite things ♪

-Why don't I feel better?

-♪ Girls in white dresses
with blue satin sashes ♪

♪ Snowflakes that stay

- ♪ On my nose and eyelashes

♪ Silver-white winters
that melt into springs ♪

♪ These are a few
of my favorite things ♪

-Maria! Maria's back!

-♪ When the dog bites

♪ When the bee stings

♪ When I'm feeling sad

♪ I simply remember
my favorite things ♪

♪ And then I don't feel

♪ So b-a-a-ad

-Oh, children!
Are you all right, Marta?

I missed you so very much!

I must find your father
right away!

-I'll find him.
-How's your sore finger?

-You remembered.

-Liesl, are you all right?
-Yes, Fraulein, I'm all right.

-Many telegrams lately?
-No, Fraulein.

I'll be glad to go
to boarding school.

-Liesl, you can't use boarding
school to escape your problems.

You have to face them!

Oh, I have so much
to talk to you about.

-We have some things
to tell you, too.

-I'm sure you have
a great deal to tell me.

-Well, I guess
the most important thing

is that Father's
going to be married.

-Married?
-To Frau Schrader.

-Are you sure?
-He just told us himself.

-Louisa, Brigitta, boys.

Maria, we'll be in the nursery.

-You've come back.

-Yes, Captain.

-You left us without
any explanation whatsoever,

without even saying goodbye.

-And it was very wrong of me.
Forgive me.

-Well, why did you
do this to us? Tell me.

-Please don't ask me.

Anyway, the reason
no longer exists.

-Well, then you're
back to staying?

-Only until you can
make arrangements
for another governess.

-Oh, no, you'd be missed
by the children.

I'd

miss --

Everybody's missed you
very much.

Nothing was the same
while you were away.

Everything was...wrong.
-But I --

-We'll talk about it later.
You go up to the children now.

Maria.

A new dress?

-I know I'm right, Max.

-I'll take your word
for it, Elsa. Ah.

-Ah. Georg.

Now, you'll settle this
for Max and me, will you?

How far down the mountain
does your property go?

-Oh, uh, can you make out
that stone wall?

That's the property line.
-Ah. You see?

-I didn't argue about it.

-Oh, I know,
and that makes me furious.

I don't like to win
without a fight.

-Herr Detweiler,
while you were gone,

you had a long-distance call
from Berlin.

-Who could be calling
from Berlin?

-They said
you'd know who it was.

-Ah. Uh, thank you, Franz.

Oh, Georg, you know I have
no political convictions.

Can I help it
if other people do?

-Yes, let's not
stir that up again.

The Germans have promised

not to invade Austria,
and Max knows that.

-Then why does he bother
to take those calls from Berlin?

-Because if they don't
keep their promise,

I want to have
some friends among them.

-Naturally.
-Oh, you agree, too?

-Oh, Georg, this is
the way I look at it.

There was a man who was dying,
they were giving him

the last rites,
and they asked him,

"Do you renounce the devil
and all his works?"

and he said,
"Well, at this point,

I'd prefer not to
make any enemies."

-Georg, if they should invade
us, would you defy them?

-Yes.

-You realize what might happen
to you, to your property?

-To your children.

-To everyone close to you.
To Elsa, to me.

-Well, what would you do
if they come?

-Well, what anyone
with any sense would do --

sit tight and wait
for it all to blow over.

-And you think it will?
-Well, one thing's sure --

nothing you can do
can make any difference.

-Yes, so don't be
so serious, darling.

Just, ah, take the world
off your shoulders. Relax.

♪ You dear, attractive,
dewy-eyed idealist ♪

♪ Today you have to learn
to be a realist ♪

-♪ You may be bent on
doing deeds of derring-do ♪

♪ But up against a shark,
what can a herring do? ♪

-♪ Be wise, compromise

-♪ Compromise and be wise

-♪ Let them think you're on
their side, be noncommittal ♪

-Herr Detweiler?

-♪ I will not bow my head
to the men I despise ♪

-You don't have to bow your
head. Just stoop a little.

-♪ Why not learn
to put your faith ♪

♪ And your reliance

♪ On an obvious and simple fact
of science? ♪

♪ A crazy planet
full of crazy people ♪

♪ Is somersaulting
all around the sky ♪

♪ And every time it turns
another somersault ♪

♪ Another day goes by

♪ And there's no way
to stop it ♪

♪ No, there's no way
to stop it ♪

♪ No, you can't stop it
even if you tried ♪

♪ So, I'm not going to worry

♪ No, I'm not going to worry
-Herr Detweiler?

-♪ Every time I see
another day go by ♪

-♪ While somersaulting
at a cockeyed angle ♪

♪ We make a cockeyed circle
'round the sun ♪

♪ And when we circle back
to where we started from ♪

♪ Another year has run

♪ And there's no way
to stop it ♪

♪ No, there's no way
to stop it ♪

♪ If the earth wants to roll
around the sun ♪

♪ You're a fool if you worry

♪ Yes, a fool if you worry

♪ Over anyone
but little number one ♪

-♪ That's you
-♪ That's I

-♪ And I
-♪ And me

♪ That all-absorbing character

-♪ Oh, that
fascinating creature ♪

-♪ That super-special feature

♪ Me

-♪ I, me

On one thing alone, we agree.

Each one is important
to himself.

But you can't save yourself
by giving up.

And you don't outwit a lion
by putting your head...

-Your call from Berlin, sir.

-...in the lion's mouth.
-I'll call him back.

-No, you might as well
take it now, Max.

-Go, go.

-Georg, I feel as if I know
what's going to happen here.

Can't you see things my way?

-No. Not if you're willing
to see things their way.

-There's one thing you do better
here than we do in Vienna,

and that's your sunsets.

I'm going to miss them.

-Captain -- Oh!
Beg your pardon.

-Oh, Maria.

Oh, Georg, you didn't tell me
Fraulein Maria was back.

I'm delighted.

-Thank you.

Captain, the children
would like to know

if they could take a holiday
from their lessons tomorrow

so that we can go on a picnic.

-Yes, I don't mind.
-That'll make them very happy.

And may I be permitted
to wish you happiness, too,

Frau Schrader?

Captain, the children have told
me you're going to be married.

-I'm afraid the children
were wrong, dear.

Well, I must finish my packing
if I'm to get back to Vienna.

-Auf Wiedersehen, Georg.

Goodbye, Maria.

-I'm sorry if I said something
I shouldn't have said.

-You did say the wrong thing,

but you said it
at the right time.

-The children, they told me

you were going to marry
Frau Schrader.

-We found we just
couldn't go the same way.

That door has shut.

-Sister Margaretta always says,
"When God shuts a door..."

-I know. He opens a window.

Maria? Why did you
run away to the abbey?

What made you come back?

-The Mother Abbess.

She said that you have to
look for your life.

-Often, when you find it,
you don't recognize it.

-No.

-Not at first.

Then one day...

one night...

all of a sudden,
it stands before you.

-Yes.

-I look at you now,
and I realize

this is not something
that has just happened.

It is something
that I have known

deep inside me for many weeks.

You knew it, too.

What was it that told you?

-Brigitta. She said when we
were dancing that night --

-She was quite right.

That was not just
an ordinary dance, was it?

-I hadn't danced
since I was very little.

It's quite different
after you've grown up, isn't it?

-Yes.
Yes, quite different.

-It is different.

-Your whole life will be
different now, Maria.

I'll take you anywhere
you want to go, give
you anything you wish.

-But I don't want
to go anywhere.

Everything I could wish for
is right here.

♪ Perhaps I had
a wicked childhood ♪

♪ Perhaps I had
a miserable youth ♪

♪ But somewhere in
my wicked, miserable past ♪

♪ There must have been
a moment of truth ♪

♪ For here you are
standing there, loving me ♪

♪ Whether or not you should

♪ So somewhere in my youth

♪ Or childhood

♪ I must have done
something good ♪

♪ Nothing comes from nothing

♪ Nothing ever could

♪ So somewhere in my youth

♪ Or childhood

♪ I must have done
something good ♪

-♪ I might have had
a wicked childhood ♪

♪ I might have had
a miserable youth ♪

♪ But somewhere in that
wicked, miserable past ♪

♪ There must have been
a moment of truth ♪

♪ For here you are
standing there, loving me ♪

♪ Whether or not you should

-♪ So somewhere in my youth

♪ Or childhood

♪ I must have done
something good ♪

-♪ Nothing comes from nothing

♪ Nothing ever could

-♪ So somewhere in my youth

-♪ Or childhood

-♪ I must have done something

-♪ Something

♪ Good

-Maria, is there someone
I should go to

to ask permission to marry you?

Why don't we ask the children?

-♪ Hallelujah

♪ Hallelujah

♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah

-♪ Hallelujah
-♪ Hallelujah

-♪ Hallelujah

-♪ Hallelujah
-♪ Hallelujah

-♪ Hallelujah
-♪ Hallelujah

-♪ Hallelujah

-♪ How do you solve
a problem like Maria? ♪

♪ How do you catch a cloud
and pin it down? ♪

♪ How do you find the word
that means Maria? ♪

♪ How do you hold a moonbeam

♪ In your hand?

-This morning,
armed forces of Germany

are marching beyond the
boundaries of German-Austria.

-Herr Detweiler?

Herr Detweiler!

Herr Detweiler,
can you help me, please?

The Gauleiter's here.

He wants to know why
we're not flying the new flag.

-Heil!
-I tried to explain --

-Keep quiet!

When is Captain Von Trapp
returning?

-Who knows, when a man
is on his honeymoon?

-These are not times for joking.

It's been four days
since the Anschluss.

This is the only house
in the province

that is not flying
the flag of the Third Reich.

-You mean the flag
with the black spider on it?

-Brigitta.

-Do you permit such remarks
in this house?

Who are you?

-I am Maximilian Detweiler,

First Secretary to the Ministry
of Education and Culture.

-That was the old regime.

- No, in the old regime,

I was

Third

Secretary.

Now I am First Secretary.

-Good. Then you can
order them to fly the flag.

-Captain Von Trapp wouldn't --

I mean, I take my orders
only from Captain Von Trapp.

-You take your orders from us!

And so does the Captain.

Heil!

-Heil.

-Why was he so cross?
-Everybody's cross these days.

-Is Father going to
be in trouble?

-He doesn't have to be.

The thing to do today
is to get along with everyone.

-Children, children!
See what I have got here.

A program for
the Kaltzberg Festival, 1938.

And look here -- the singers
of the Family Von Trapp.

And here are all
of your names. Look.

Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Kurt,
Brigitta, Marta, and Gretl.

-Why am I always last?
-Because you're the youngest.

-Now, Liesl,
I'm depending on you.

Day after tomorrow,
you must all be ready

to leave at 11:00
in the morning.

-Uncle Max, are you sure this is
going to be okay with Father?

-He will be pleased and proud.

-Liesl, do you think so?

-Brigitta, don't you trust me?
-No.

-Well, anyway, the bus
will leave at 11:00 sharp.

-Fraulein Liesl,
see what I have here?

-Oh, that's Father's luggage.

-Yes, they're back!
-They're back!

They're back!

-Now, Liesl, they'll have
such a lot to tell us.

Let us not be in any hurry
to tell them...

-Oh, Max!
-Ah, Georg!

We weren't expecting you
till next week.

-Max, it's good you're here.
There's much I want to know.

-Oh, children,
we missed you so very much.

-What did you miss most?

-We missed hearing all that
noise you make in the morning.

-That noise you make,
telling each other to be quiet.

We missed climbing upstairs
to say good night to you.

-We missed hearing you sing.

-You're just in time
to hear us sing.

Look, Father,
we're going to sing

at the Kaltzberg Festival
Friday night.

-Let me see that.

Max, are you
responsible for this?

-Georg, I've just been
waiting for an opportunity
to talk to you.

-You can't talk your way
out of this one.

-Oh, presents!
-Let's open them in the nursery.

-Now, Georg, I had to make
a last-minute decision.

I-I know it's very fortunate
to be able to enter them at all.

They'll be the talk
of the festival,

seven children in one family --

-Not my family.
-The committee heard them.

They were enchanted.
-Really, Max? What did they say?

-Oh, you've never heard
such praise.

-Georg, did you hear?
-The Von Trapp Family

does not sing in public.

-But if they make
people happy...

-And for the festival.
People come from
all over the world.

-It is out of the question!
-Georg, it's for Austria.

-There is no Austria.

-But the Anschluss
happened peacefully.

I mean, let's at least
be grateful for that.

-Grateful?
To these swine?

-Oh, Maria, he must
at least pretend to
work with these people.

I mean, I admire the
way he feels, but you
must convince him.

He has to compromise.
-No, Max, no.

-Maria, you must.
-Max, I can't ask Georg

to be less than what he is.

- All right.
Then I shall speak to him.

I mean, if these children
don't sing in that festival,

well, it'll be
a reflection on Austria.

And it wouldn't do

me

any good.

-Maria, I've always known
you loved us children.

Now I know you love Father.

-Oh, I do, Liesl.
I love him very much.

-How can you be sure?

-Because I don't think
first of myself anymore.

I think first of him.
I now know how to spend my love.

♪ A bell is no bell
till you ring it ♪

♪ A song is no song
till you sing it ♪

♪ And love in your heart
wasn't put there to stay ♪

♪ Love isn't love
till you give it away ♪

♪ When you're 16 going on 17

♪ Waiting for life to start

♪ Somebody kind
who touches your mind ♪

♪ Will suddenly
touch your heart ♪

-♪ When that happens,
after it happens ♪

♪ Nothing is quite the same

♪ Somehow you know
you'll jump up and go ♪

♪ If ever he calls your name

-♪ Gone are the old ideas
of life ♪

♪ The old ideas grow dim

♪ Lo and behold,
you're someone's wife ♪

♪ And you belong to him

♪ You may think
this kind of adventure ♪

♪ Never may come to you

♪ Darling, 16 going on 17

♪ Wait a year

♪ Or two

-♪ I'll wait

♪ A year

-♪ Or two

-Rolf! Oh, Rolf!

I'd like you to meet my mother,
my new mother.

-Rolf, I'm glad
to meet you, finally.

-I have a telegram
for Captain Von Trapp.

-You stay here with Liesl.
I'll take it to him.

-I'm under orders to make sure
the Captain gets it.

-I'm sure you can trust me
to give it to him.

-I have my orders.

-Silly. They're married.

-Ah, Franz, this telegram
is to be delivered

into the hands
of Captain Von Trapp.

-Heil.
-Heil!

-Rolf?

-Even Franz?

-Yes, even Franz.
Even me.

Even everybody in Nonnberg,

except for the great
Captain Von Trapp.

If he knows what's good for him,
he'll come to the Reich's side.

-Rolf, don't talk like that.
-And if he doesn't,

he better get out
of the country.

There are things that happen
today to a man like him.

He better get out quick.

Just remember what I've said
before it's too late.

You remember, too.

-Oh, Liesl, don't cry.

-How could he turn on Father
like that?

-Maybe he wasn't
threatening your father.

Maybe he was warning him.
-Liesl.

-What is it, Georg?
-I didn't think

I would have to face
a decision this soon.

-Berlin has offered me
a commission in their Navy.

-Well?
-I can't just brush this aside.

I admit it would be exciting
to have a ship under me again.

What I mean is, it would be
a relief and comfort

to know that you
and the children are safe.

But it also means...

Please, Maria, help me.

-Georg, whatever you decide
will be my decision.

-We'll have to get out
of Austria right away.

-You'll have to
leave tonight, now.

-Not without my family.

And we can't
just pick up and leave.

They'll be watching us now.
We'll have to plan.

We'll have to have time.

-Sir?

Admiral Von Schreiber
of the Navy of the Third Reich

is here to see you.

-Thank you, Franz.

They didn't give us time.
-Then we'll have to make time.

-We must be careful.

-What's going on? Stormtroopers?
This is what I was afraid of.

-Max, you stay with Georg.

Liesl, find the children,
quickly!

-Admiral Von Schreiber,
may I present Herr Detweiler?

Max, I think you know
Herr Zeller.

Would you gentlemen
care to sit down?

-We are here on business.

-Captain Von Trapp,

a telegram was sent to you
three days ago.

-I've just received it, sir.
I've been away.

I've only been home
half an hour.

-Captain Von Trapp
has just returned

from his honeymoon, sir.

-Congratulations, Captain.
-Thank you, sir.

-Your record in the war is very
well-remembered by us, Captain.

-It's good to hear
you say that, sir.

-Let's get to the point!

-If you don't mind.

In our Navy, we hold you
in very high regard.

That explains why I am here.

Having had no answer
to our telegram,

the high command
has sent me in person.

-That's very flattering, sir,
but I've had no time to --

-I'm here to present you
with your commission.

-I'm deeply conscious
of the honor --

-And your orders are to report

immediately to the
naval base of Bremerhaven.

-Immediately?
Oh, I'm afraid

that would be impossible
for you, Georg.

Admiral, may I present my wife,
the Baroness Von Trapp?

Admiral Von Schreiber.

-Madam.

-What I mean, sir,
is that we are all singing

in the Kaltzberg Festival
on Friday night.

You see, the Von Trapp Family
singers here in the program.

-It has been arranged

by the Ministry
of Education and Culture.

-Friday night?

This is Wednesday.
It is only a matter of two days.

It might be possible.

You could report to
Bremerhaven by Monday.

-Admiral!

-Is there a telephone
I could use?

-Uh, this way, Admiral.
If there remain any questions,

perhaps adding the weight
of my voice might help to smooth

over any ruffled feathers.

-It gives here only
the names of the children.

-It says
the Von Trapp Family singers.

-I am the head of
the Von Trapp family.

-It's hard to believe,
Captain Von Trapp --

you, singing in a concert.

-Herr Zeller,
you may believe what you choose.

-Ah, it doesn't say here
what you're going to sing.

What are you
going to sing, Captain?

-It's your privilege to come
to the concert and hear us.

-I'd like to hear you sing now.

Sing what you're going to sing
in the concert.

Sing!

-♪ Sew, a needle
pulling thread ♪

-♪ A needle pulling thread
-♪ La, a note to follow sew

-♪ A note to follow sew

-♪ Tea, a drink
with jam and bread ♪

-♪ A drink with jam and bread

-♪ A drink with jam and bread
-♪ A drink with jam and bread

-♪ Jam and bread
-♪ With jam and bread

-♪ Tea with jam and bread

-♪ Tea with jam and bread

-♪ Jam and bread
-♪ Jam and bread

-♪ Tea with jam, jam and bread

♪ Jam and bread, tea with jam

♪ Jam and bread

-♪ With jam
-♪ A-B-C

-♪ With jam
-♪ Do-re-mi

-♪ A-B-C-D-E-F-G
-♪ Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti

-♪ With jam and bread
-♪ With jam and bread

-♪ Fa-la-la-la
-♪ Fa-la-la-la

♪ Tea with jam and bread

♪ With jam and bread

♪ With jam, with jam

♪ And bre-a-a-a-ad

-♪ Edelweiss

♪ Edelweiss

♪ Every morning

♪ You greet me

♪ Small and white

♪ Clean and bright

♪ You look happy

♪ To meet me

♪ Blossom of snow

♪ May you bloom and grow

♪ Bloom and grow

♪ Forever

♪ Edelweiss

♪ Edelweiss

♪ Bless my homeland

♪ Forever

♪ Edelweiss

♪ Edelweiss

♪ Every morning...

-♪ Small and white

♪ Clean and bright

♪ You look happy

♪ To meet me

-♪ Blossom of snow

♪ May you bloom and grow

-♪ Bloom and grow

♪ Forever

♪ Edelweiss

♪ Edelweiss

♪ Bless my homeland

♪ Forever

-Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you. Uh, just a moment.

I have an announcement
that concerns you.

Well, our festival concert
has reached its conclusion,

except, of course, we don't know
what that conclusion will be.

Our distinguished judges
are putting their heads

together to arrive
at their decision.

And while we are waiting,

I think there
should be an encore.

It seems this might be the last
opportunity the Von Trapp family

will have to sing together
for a long, long time.

I have just been informed
that Captain Von Trapp

leaves immediately after
this concert for his new command

in the Naval Forces
of the Third Reich.

A guard of honor has arrived

to escort the Captain
directly from this hall

to the naval base
at Bremerhaven.

And now, ladies and gentlemen,

the Von Trapp family
once again!

-♪ There's a sad
sort of clanging ♪

♪ From the clock in the hall

♪ And the bells
in the steeple, too ♪

♪ And up in the nursery,
an absurd little bird ♪

♪ Is popping out
to say "Cuckoo" ♪

-♪ Cuckoo, cuckoo

-♪ Regretfully, they tell us
but firmly they compel us ♪

♪ To say goodbye

-♪ Cuckoo

-♪ To you

-♪ So long, farewell,
auf Wiedersehen, good night ♪

-♪ We hate to go and miss
this pretty sight ♪

-♪ So long, farewell,
auf Wiedersehen, adieu ♪

-♪ Adieu, adieu to you
and you and you ♪

-♪ So long, farewell,
auf Wiedersehen, goodbye ♪

-♪ We flit, we float

♪ We fleetly flee, we fly

-♪ So long, farewell,
auf Wiedersehen, goodbye ♪

-♪ The sun has gone to bed,
and so must I ♪

♪ Goodbye

-♪ Goodbye

-♪ Goodbye

-♪ Goodbye

-Well, our distinguished judges
have reached their decision,

and we will start
with the third award.

For this honor,
the judges have named

the trio of the
Saengerbund of Herwegen!

The second award has been
given to Fraulein Schweiger,

the first soloist of the
choir of St. Agatha's
Church in Morbach.

Uh, Fraulein.

The first prize,

the highest musical honor
in the ausmache...

goes to the Family Von Trapp!

The Von Trapp family!

-Keep quiet.
-Please, everybody --

-Nobody move!
-Call the guard!

-We need to call headquarters.
-Where are they?!

-Quiet!
-A

chtung!

Take the first row!
-Arrest that man!

-All clear, sir.
-Keep looking.

-Nothing here.
-Keep moving.

-Go that way.

Over there.

-Sir.
-Look around the back.

-Anything?
-Clear!

-All clear!
-Clear!

-They've only five
more rooms to search.

Shouldn't be too long now.
-How many of them are there?

-I counted only eight
stormtroopers and their officer.

-Sister Margaretta, we didn't
know we'd put the abbey

in this danger.
-It's outrageous.

The church has always
been a sanctuary.

-Not for these people.

This is the third time
they've searched the abbey.

That's why we put you
out here in the garden.

They always search the inside,
never the outside.

-Isn't this God's house?
-Shh!

-Not in here.
-Yes, darling.

-Then why did He let them in?

-We all must be
very, very quiet.

I'll let you know
when they've gone.

-When they've gone,
can we go home?

-No, darling. We have
a long drive ahead of us.

-Liesl, let's all stay
close to each other.

-Liesl.

-Lieutenant!
-What is it?!

There's no one here, sir!

-All right! Come along!

--Oh. Liesl. Liesl.

Thank God.

-They've gone.
-Quick. Go inside.

Children, quick. In you go.

You go.

Reverend Mother, we are sorry
we brought this on you.

-Reverend Mother,
we can never thank you.

-As soon as it's safe,
we'll start.

We hid our car
deep in the woods.

-The car will do you no good.

They've left a guard on the road
in front of the gate.

-I've been listening
to the wireless.

All the roads are blocked.
The borders are closed.

-I've always thought of these
mountains as my friends,

standing there, protecting us.

Now it seems they've
become my enemies.

-Never your enemies.
Haven't you read?

"I shall lift up mine eyes
unto the hills

from whence cometh my help."

-Georg, I know that mountain
as well as I know these gardens,

and so do you.

Once we're over that mountain,
we're in Switzerland.

-But the children.
-We can help them.

-Father. We can do it
without help.

-You'll have help.

-For ye shall go out with joy

and be led forth with peace,

and the mountains and hills

shall break forth before you
into singing.

♪ Follow every byway

♪ Till you find your dream

♪ A dream that will need
-♪ Ah-ah-ah

-♪ All the love you can give

-♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah

-♪ Every day of your life
-♪ Ah-ah-ah

-♪ For as long as you live

-♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

-♪ Climb ev'ry mountain

♪ Ford ev'ry stream

♪ Follow ev'ry rainbow

♪ Till you

♪ Find your

♪ Dre-e-e-e-am

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