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Overview

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7.4/10   7,770 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Margaret Landon (book)
Oscar Hammerstein II (musical play)
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Release Date:
29 June 1956 (USA) more
Tagline:
More Than You've Ever Seen On The Screen! more
Plot:
Musical about a widow who accepts a job as a live-in governess of the King of Siam's children. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won 5 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations more
User Comments:
Wonderful, glorious colour and Brynner in his finest hour. more (64 total)

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Also Known As:
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
133 min
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2.55 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm re-release)

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Dinah Shore, who was a singer as well as an actress, was initially considered for the role of Anna Leonowens. more
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Continuity: After Tuptim is found and the King throws the whip down, the whip is in front of the pillar. When the guards take Tuptim away, the whip has moved to the side of the pillar. more
Quotes:
Kralahome: [to Anna] Why are you so blind; have you no eyes to see? King tries impossible task - wishing to be scientific man who know all modern things... He will only tear himself in two, trying to be something he can never be!
Anna: Of course he can never be, if those who are closest to him are unwilling to help him!
Kralahome: You do not know King as well as you think you do. You believe you have great influence over him. You will end up as his slave-like all the others!
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What is this movie about?
Do Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner do their own singing?
Did the real Prince Chulalongkorn ever become king?
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16 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Wonderful, glorious colour and Brynner in his finest hour., 4 October 2002
8/10
Author: Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) from Toronto, Canada

Brynner is so strongly identified with this role that it is difficult to remember him in anything else. He gives his all in this performance, sometimes way over the top, but it fits with this movie which is in itself over the top, offering us the Hollywood version of Siam and introducing 1955 sensibilities to the era of 1862. No matter.

The musical numbers are great and hummable, most done by Marni Nixon, who dubbed for so many in that era of endless musicals and no-voice stars.

People who protest about the insensibility and racial aspect of these musicals (Showboat and South Pacific, etc. also comes to mind)don't get it - that this is a musical, composed about an unenlightened era and is not a documentary and cannot be taken seriously.

The play within the play is truly magical, I could watch it over and over again, it is a perfect little opera.

Deborah Kerr is terrific in this and should have received an Oscar. I felt sorry for the boy who played her son - I think they appeared again together in Tea and Sympathy, but I could be wrong - there was not much to his role, he had to stand around and just be pretty and nod at his mother a lot. Very difficult.

Rita Moreno excelled as usual.

8 out of 10. Not to be missed.

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