The King and I

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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 133

Budget: $4,550,000

Revenue: $21,300,000

Languages: th, en

Webpage: -

Release Info

1956-06-29
NR
1956-06-29
U

Plot Keywords

Alternative Titles

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I
Le roi et moi
Król i ja

Content Score: 100

Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls in love with the children. A new slave, a gift of a vassal king, translates "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into a Siamese ballet, expressing her unhappiness at being with the King. She attempts to escape with her lover. Anna and the King fall in love, but her British upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem. She is just about to leave Siam when she hears of the King's imminent death, and returns to help his son, her favorite pupil, rule his people.