.." who were "holding a convention up there." With an anti-science bias, Dykes negatively noted that they were "looking for polar bear tails." Both Macpherson and Dykes teasingly made side references to Hendry's previous girlfriend who was still stationed at the base:Macpherson: "You'll never be able to shoo our Captain southward with his heart wrapped around the North Pole.The powerful box-office hit was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the 40th year of the annual honors.Marketing slogans cried: "The Happiest Sound in All the World." Ernest Lehman's screenplay was based on the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.That book was in turn based on Baroness Maria von Trapp's 1949 autobiography (The von Trapp Family Singers) about he exploits of the family of singers and their escape from the Nazis in Austria in 1938.]Two films (amongst many others) that deliberately copied the Hall of Mirrors sequence were Woody Allen'sManhattan Murder Mystery (1993)andJohn Wick: Chapter 2 (2017).He found a whittled design carved into the tree's bark, later revealed to be a lucky sign in gambling, and used on a Mah Jongg game piece - it was interpreted as "Red Dragon.