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Dominican Rep. The King and I (Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I)
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Musical. Romance
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 ... [+]
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"Every bit of the humor and vibrant humanity that flowed through the tender story of the English school-teacher and the quizzical king is richly preserved in the screen play that Ernest Lehman has prepared.ยท | ||
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"Even without the music, this well-written story would be a splendid entertainment. But it's the music, that wonderful score written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, that makes this movie as beloved as it is." | ||
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"Too long at 133 minutes, but the score is swell." | ||
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"A pictorially exquisite, musically exciting, and dramatically satisfying motion picture." | ||
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"Poor songs, fair choreography, poor script, nice photography." | ||
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"Walter Lang does almost nothing to cinematize the show, but that's all right; King and I works fine as an act of theatrical preservation, and at some strange level the story, even with its abrupt ending, still has power." |
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