The King and I

Synopsis: Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has been 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. After expressing her unhappiness at being with the King, the slave decides to make an attempt to escape with her lover. Anna and the King start to fall in love, but her headstrong upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem. She is just about to leave Siam but something important she finds out makes her think about changing her mind.

Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical

Director(s): Walter Lang

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson

Production: 20th Century Fox

Won 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 11 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:: 96%

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: G
Year:: 1956
: 133 min
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Come on, lads, hurry!
We haven't got all day.
Is that it, captain?
Are we here?
Aye, laddie.
That's Bangkok all right.
Louis! Oh, Louis!
Mother! Look, there's Bangkok.
Yes, I know. Isn't it exciting?
Captain, I heard them lowering
the anchor. Is anything wrong?
We have to wait for the afternoon
tide to carry us over the bar.
Oh, I see.
Will the king of Siam come down
to meet us, Mother?
I hardly think so, dear.
IKings don't, as a rule.
Come forward, lads.
They need help in the bow.
Get along there.
That's the royal barge.
The king is coming out to meet us.
It's not the king,
it's the kralahome.
Who is the kralahome?
A sort of a prime minister.
The king's right-hand man,
you might say.
May I look? Please, may I see?
Aye, laddie.
Ma'am, if I might be allowed to offer
you a word of warning...
...that man has power, and he can
use it for you or against you.
You must stop worrying about me,
Captain Orton.
Sometimes I wonder if you know what
you're really facing.
An Englishwoman alone
in a country like Siam.
Oh, it doesn't matter, captain.
I shall have work to do...
...and the king has promised me
a house of my own.
I'll have a place to bring up my boy
as his father would have wished.
Mother, look.
The prime minister is naked!
Oh, don't be ridiculous, Louis.
He can't be naked.
He's only...
...half-naked.
They look so cruel, Mother.
Father wouldn't have liked us
to be afraid, would he?
No, Louis. Father would not have
liked us to be afraid.
Not ever.
Doesn't anything ever frighten you?
Oh, yes, sometimes.
- What do you do?
- I whistle.
Oh, that's why you whistle.
That's why I whistle.
Whenever I feel afraid
I hold my head erect
And whistle a happy tune
So no one will suspect
I'm afraid
While shivering in my shoes
I strike a careless pose
And whistle a happy tune
And no one ever knows
I'm afraid
The result of this deception
Is very strange to tell
For when I fool the people I fear
I fool myself as well
I whistle a happy tune
And every single time
The happiness in the tune
Convinces me that I'm
Not afraid
Make believe you're brave
And the trick will take you far
You may be as brave
As you make believe you are
You may be as brave
As you make believe you are
I think that's a very good idea,
Mother. A very good idea.
Yes, it is a good idea, isn't it?
I don't think I shall
ever be afraid again.
Good.
The result of this deception
Is very strange to tell
For when I fool the people I fear
I fool myself as well
Mrs. Leonowens, may I present his
excellency, the kralahome.
Sir, you are lady who will be
schoolmistress of the royal children?
- Yes.
- He called you "sir. "
Hush, dear, hush.
Have you friends in Bangkok?
I know no one in Bangkok at all.
His excellency wishes to know,
are you married, sir?
I am a widow.
What manner of man,
your deceased husband?
My husband was an officer
of Her Majesty's Army in...
Tell your master
his business with me...
...is as schoolteacher
to the royal children.
He has no right to pry
into my personal affairs.
He hasn't, Captain Orton.
I don't like that man.
In foreign country is best
you like everyone until you leave.
You might at least have told us
you speak English, Your Excellency.
It is not necessary for schoolteacher
to know everything at once.
You come with me now.
Your baggages shall be carried
to palace later.
Just a minute. Not the palace.
I am not living in the palace.
- Who say?
- The king say- Says.
In his letter of agreement,
he promised me 20 a month...
...and a house of my own
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