The hills weren't the only places that were alive with The Sound of Music in 1965 – the epic musical drama was everywhere, becoming the highest-grossing film of the year. And for five years, it was the highest-grossing movie of all time, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews as a nun named Maria, turned governess, and Christopher Plummer as the widowed father of seven and naval officer Captain Georg von Trapp, the film tells the love story between the two as the family is forced to flee the Nazis in pre-war Austria.

The movie is based on the 1959 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein stage play, which itself was based on Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers , about her experiences with the children, he

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