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The King and I

1956 · Movie · 133 min

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  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer93%as of 2025-01-30
  • Rotten Tomatoes average8.2/10as of 2021-10-10

What it is

The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, which is itself based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.

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Genres
Romance / Music / Drama
Original language
English

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