Movie · Musical · Classics

This visual and musical masterpiece features Yul Brynner's Academy Award®-winning performance, an unforgettable Rodgers and Hammerstein® score, and brilliant choreography by Jerome Robbins. It tells the true story of an Englishwoman, Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr), who comes to Siam as schoolteacher to the royal court in the 1860's. Though she soon finds herself at odds with the stubborn monarch (Brynner), over time, Anna and the King stop trying to change each other and begin to understand one another.

1956 · 2h 13m
Director Walter Lang

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The King and I

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This visual and musical masterpiece features Yul Brynner's Academy Award®-winning performance, an unforgettable Rodgers and Hammerstein® score, and brilliant choreography by Jerome Robbins. It tells the true story of an Englishwoman, Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr), who comes to Siam as schoolteacher to the royal court in the 1860's. Though she soon finds herself at odds with the stubborn monarch (Brynner), over time, Anna and the King stop trying to change each other and begin to understand one another.

COMMON SENSE

A boisterous, big-costumed classic musical.

TOMATOMETER
Average 8.2
Reviews 28
Fresh 26
Rotten 2

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Studio
20th Century Fox
Released
1956
Run Time
2 hr 13 min
Rated
Unrated
Region of Origin
United States
© 1956 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Spain) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United States) , Cantonese, Traditional , Chinese, Traditional , Danish , Dutch , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Italian (Italy) , Korean , Norwegian , Romanian , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Turkish

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.