King and I, The DVD

Type

Audio/Visual

Authors

Lang, Walter

ISBN 10

6305280770

ISBN 13

0086162000997

Tags

Movies, Drama, Musicals, Romance, Special Interests, Kids & Family, Rodgers & Hammerstein

Abstract

A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.

Description

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.

Biblio Notes

Top cast
Yul Brynner as King Mongkut of Siam
Deborah Kerr as Anna Leonowens
Rita Moreno as Tuptim
Martin Benson as Kralahome
Terry Saunders as Lady Thiang
Rex Thompson as Louis Leonowens
Carlos Rivas as Lun Tha
Patrick Adiarte as Prince Chulalongkorn
Alan Mowbray as Sir John Hay
Geoffrey Toone as Sir Edward Ramsay

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