Early reviews were not kind to the film; The New York Times singled out Plummer in particular for being "horrendous," a review that likely didn't improve his attitude toward the film.
And then, to heap indignity upon indignity (as he apparently saw it), "Sound of Music" did not fade away as a forgotten flop ... but slowly became a beloved classic.
Plummer was not so quick to come around. He told The Boston Globe in 2010, "I was a bit bored with the character. Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse. And the subject matter is not mine. I mean it can't appeal to every person in the world. It's not my cup of tea."
But something shifted in his later years. In his 2012 autobiography, "In Spite of Myself," where he still calls the film "S&M," he recalls attending an Easter party where the hosts asked him to stay to watch the film because it would be fun for the children to watch Captain von Trapp watching himself on screen. "The monstrous little fiends!" he wrote. But he stayed.
"The world is so horrific at the moment that it is an escape. It is a proper, family escape."
"The more I watched, the more I realized what a terrific movie it is," he noted. "The very best of its genre — warm, touching, absolutely timeless." He was "totally seduced by the damn thing — and what's more, I felt a sudden surge of pride that I'd been a part of it."
That may have been his turning point. In Vanity Fair he noted, that "I do respect that it is a bit of relief from all the gunfire and car chases you see these days. It's sort of wonderfully, old-fashionedly universal. It's got the bad guys and the Alps; it's got Julie (Andrews) and sentiment in bucketloads."
And in 2015 he attended — for the first time — an anniversary special screening for the film, this one the 50th. When asked if he really was a curmudgeon about the film, Andrews, who walked the red carpet with him, joked, "What makes you think anything has changed?"
Well, some of it did. After all, just how mad can you stay at a film most everyone seems to revere — and which helped to make you a star, even if it wasn't the star you planned to be? Plummer seems to have understood that, in the end.
"I think people go to it now with their children," he noted on the red carpet, his friend and co-star by his side. "It's about the only safe movie to take people to, really. And the world is so horrific at the moment that it is an escape. It is a proper, family escape."
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