《《》》Storyline
The film trailer""s narrator succinctly described the plot of Malick""s film:In 1916, America was changing, expanding, holding a promise of new prosperity.Loomis told the next-door neighbor o call the police: "...he""s still on the loose..." The familiar theme music then played as the credits were shown.As a police car pulled up, from the POV of the killer watching from a shadowy distance, Dr.Loomis was heard exclaiming to Sheriff Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers): "I shot him six times.I shot him in the heart...This guy, this man, he""s not human." Radio reports announced that there were three bodies (all victims were teenagers) found in the upstairs bedroom of a Haddonfield house.The famous film, shot in three-strip Technicolor, is cinema""s greatest, star-studded, historical epic film of the Old South during wartime that boasts an immortal cast in a timeless, classic tale of a love-hate romance...to take care of seven children" - of the widowed Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer, although Yul Brynner was originally considered for the role),a retired officer of the Imperial Navy, a fine man and a brave one.Doolittle (1967),Star! (1968), andHello, Dolly! (1969).The star of the film was the previous year""s Best Actress Academy Award winner, a fresh-faced Julie Andrews in a similar role as her governess performance inMary Poppins (1964).