Steve, the scenery in the film is, of course, spectacular and it must have been amazing for you to experience it first hand. Having said that, "The Sound of Music" is the only film I've ever walked out of, long before its finish. It was a Saturday in the mid-sixties and I had played for my school football team in the morning. (Inverness Royal Academy, innocently known as the I.R.A. at the time!) With about four hours to kill before my train home to Dalwhinnie, I decided to go to the cinema which, in Inverness, was almost literally next door to the station. I simply couldn't stomach the sickly sweetness of it. Maybe it's because, at that time, I was trying to be a cool, cynical teenager but I just had to get up and leave. So, rather than pass the time in a warm, comfortable cinema seat, I trekked around the freezing streets of Inverness for a couple of hours before catching my train.
And I'm scarred for life. I've tried to watch it on many of the occasions that it's been on TV but I've never managed. The memory of that traumatic day in Inverness still haunts me. I have no idea how it ends. I'm guessing that Julie Andrews and those insufferable children sing to Hitler and he immediately heads to his bunker.
