Things Only Adults Notice In The Sound Of Music Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images By Jeff Somers/Feb. 6, 2021 3:28 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 2:54 am EDT Just like raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, and warm woolen mittens, The Sound of Music remains one of our favorite things more than 50 years after its release. Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and featuring some of the last songs composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, the 1965 musical was a huge hit at the time and has remained a cultural touchstone ever since. Based (somewhat) on the true story of Maria Augusta Kutschera and the von Trapp family, much of the film's staying power lies with its absolutely sincere wholesomeness. Despite being set in the years leading up to World War II and having real, actual Nazis as villains, it's an unrelentingly sunny and good-natured film set in a universe where singing and dancing literally all the time is offered as a general solution to any problem you might have. Including an infestation of Nazis in your country.