Product Information
Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical, adapted from Margaret Landon's fact-based novel and the 1946 film ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM, makes a spectacularly successful move to the silver screen in the Yul Brynner tour de force THE KING AND I. Brynner, reprising the role he'd polished to perfection on stage, plays the blustering, headstrong Siamese potentate who meets his match in the form of Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr), the prim and proper English widow he's hired to oversee the rearing of his huge, unruly flock of children. Director Walter Lang (TIN PAN ALLEY) presents THE KING AND I, one of the most popular musicals in cinema history, as a dizzyingly bountiful Technicolor feast. Kerr (aided during songs by the overdubbed voice of Marni Nixon) contributes a dynamic performance that is every bit the equal of Brynner's transcendent, career-defining turn, for which he won an Academy Award. The delightful score, which also garnered an Oscar, includes three perennial favorite show tunes: 'I Whistle a Happy Tune', 'Getting to Know You', and 'Shall We Dance'.Product Identifiers
ProducerCharles Brackett
EAN5039036025867
eBay Product ID (ePID)50845736
Product Key Features
ActorYul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, Alan Mowbray, Deborah Kerr
Film/TV TitleThe King and I (Singalong)
DirectorWalter Lang
FormatDVD
Release Year2006
LanguageEnglish
GenreMusicals & Music Films, Musicals & Broadway
Run Time128 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificateU
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
LyricistOscar Hammerstein
ComposerRichard Rodgers, Alfred Newman
AwardsBest Actor In A Leading Role 1956 - Yul Brynner
ScreenwriterErnest Lehman
Costume DesignerIrene Sharaff
AuthorMargaret Landon
Music DirectorAlfred Newman
Movie/TV TitleThe King And I (Singalong)
EditorRobert Simpson
Director of PhotographyLeon Shamroy