Comments on: Fun Friday–The Hills Are Alive . . .

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:49:13 +0000

I liked your “best kisses.” The best kiss for me was always in “Young at Heart,” when Frank Sinatra kisses Doris Day when she’s making gingerbread men. It’s only on the cheek, but it’s so sudden, and so innocent it’s sexy.

By: Courtney Walsh

Courtney Walsh — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:50:09 +0000

You know, I never got to see the ending – it was always on way past my bedtime. To this day, I still don’t think I’ve seen past where the Von Trapp family performs… my memory is foggy. I need to re-watch this one!!

By: rose mccauley

rose mccauley — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:22:06 +0000

Boy! some of you make me feel like a grandmother–oh, well, I am one! I was in HS when the Sound of Music came out and it is my fav. Our youngest daughter played the part of Brigitta (Played by Angela Cartwright in the movie I think) in regional summer theatre one summer, so we all heard it many, many times!

By: Caleb

Caleb — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:17:19 +0000

It’s a classic to be sure. It’s just… so long. So, so long.

Really good music though.

By: PatriciaW

PatriciaW — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:22:45 +0000

Hard to love musicals and not like this one. Movie is a bit long for me. Wouldn’t have been hurt by a good edit. But the soundtrack is wonderful and how can one not get caught up in the performance/escape scene at the end?

By: Emilie

Emilie — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:01:20 +0000

My all-time favorite movie, musical or not:) I’ve loved it since I was ten, I know it backwards and forwards, yet it still has magic every time. Like so many other people, it’s also the film that made me fall in love with Julie Andrews, another love affair that continues to this day.

And CJ, I love that Pink Panther spoof even more because the original Pink Panther films were written and directed by Blake Edwards who is married to…Julie Andrews:)

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:30:28 +0000

One of the musicals I will admit to liking. Love the spoof that was done on this. Cue the hills are alive music, sweeping vista of the Alpine meadow. Figure in the middle turning toward camera and it turns out to be the Pink Panther in the novice habit with striped apron. Just cracks me up!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:20:05 +0000

I looovvvveee this movie. Haven’t watched it in ages though (bad Ruth!).

I’ve really enjoyed this “Fun Friday” series…here’s to hoping you have 6-10 lined up.

By: Lori Benton

Lori Benton — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:49:57 +0000

I’m not a fan of musicals, but The Sound of Music is one I’ll sit through even after all these years, because I love the setting and story.

Does The Little Mermaid count as a musical? I like that one, too!

By: Erica Vetsch

Erica Vetsch — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:41:00 +0000

This is the first movie I can remember actually going to the theatre to see. It was out in rerun (I wasn’t born when it first aired) and people from our church were NOT supposed to go to movie theatres. The Fox Theatre in downtown Salina, Kansas was one of the old kind where you stood on the street and the ticket seller (Only one ticket seller as there was only one screen) sat in a booth. I can remember wondering if someone from our church would go by on Santa Fe Street and see us going into the theatre. Sad to think that there were people who would condemn us for going to see this wonderful family film.