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Mood:
- SentimentalTouchingCaptivatingUpliftingBittersweetEmotionalFeel GoodStylized
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Plot:
- Head of StateNannyOpposites AttractCulture ClashRoyal FamilyLove and RomanceCouplesFall in Love more...
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Genres:
- FamilyMusicalRomanceHollywood ToneMelodramaDramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 19th CenturyVictorian
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Place:
- AsiaThailandRoyal Court
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Audience:
- Family Outing
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- Award WinnerClassicCritically AcclaimedMasterpieceOscar WinnerGolden Globe WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Humor:
- Verbal Byplay
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Based on:
- Based on BookBased on PlayBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Score:
- OldiesShow Tunes
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The King and I, 1956
English, Thai
USA
Profile of The King and I
The mood of The King and I is uplifting, bittersweet, and sentimental. The plot centers around a nanny, a head of state, and a royal family. It features verbal byplay. The King and I is a romance, family, and musical movie. Stylistically, it has a Hollywood tone and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The King and I takes place, at least partly, at a royal court. The setting is Thailand. It happens in the Victorian era. The musical score of The King and I is oldies and show tunes. It is adapted from a play, originally a true story, and based on a book. The movie is known for being a Golden Globe winner, a classic, and a masterpiece. The King and I is especially suggested for a family outing.
Summary of The King and I
Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical, adapted from Margaret Landon's fact-based novel and the 1946 film ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM, makes a spectacularly successful move to the silver screen in the Yul Brynner tour de force THE KING AND I. Brynner, reprising the role he'd polished to perfection on stage, plays the blustering, headstrong Siamese potentate who meets his match in the form of Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr), the prim and proper English widow he's hired to oversee the rearing of his huge, unruly flock of children.
Director Walter Lang (TIN PAN ALLEY) presents THE KING AND I, one of the most popular musicals in cinema history, as a dizzyingly bountiful Technicolor feast. Kerr (aided during songs by the overdubbed voice of Marni Nixon) contributes a dynamic performance that is every bit the equal of Brynner's transcendent, career-defining turn, for which he won an Academy Award. The delightful score, which also garnered an Oscar, includes three perennial favorite show tunes: "I Whistle a Happy Tune," "Getting to Know You," and "Shall We Dance?"
Details
| Language: | English, Thai |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 28 June 1956 |
| Runtime: | 133 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Anna Leonowens
as King Mongkut of Siam
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