The King and I (2-DVD) G
More than your eyes have ever seen… More than your heart has ever known!
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 31, 2017
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Deborah Kerr & Yul Brynner | |
| Performer: | Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, Terry Saunders, Rex Thompson, Carlos Rivas & Patrick Adiarte | |
| Directed by | Walter Lang | |
| Edited by | Robert Simpson | |
| Screenwriting by | Ernest Lehman | |
| Composition by | Alfred Newman & Richard Rodgers | |
| Lyricist: | Oscar Hammerstein | |
| Art Direction by | John DeCuir & Lyle R. Wheeler | |
| Produced by | Charles Brackett | |
| Director of Photography: | Leon Shamroy |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1956 -
Best Actor: Yul Brynner
Academy Awards 1956 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Alfred Newman & Ken Darby
Academy Awards 1956 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Lyle Wheeler & Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1956 -
Best Costume Design (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1956 -
Best Sound Recording: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: B+ --
Walter Lang's screen version is too theatrical but the score by Rodgers and Hammerstein is glorious and the acting by Yul Brynner in his most iconic role and Deborah Kerr is superb, overcoming Marnie Nixon's colorless voice.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Already saluted here but deserving another mention. It's a glorious musical, by far the best Rodgers-and-Hammerstein show ever filmed.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/4 --
Starring Yul Brynner in the part he seemed born to play, this is a fine if slightly stage-bound example of the 1950s Hollywood musical spectacular.
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TV Guide
Typically overproduced.
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Chicago Reader
Over-long but visually spectacular.
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Time Out
All the ingredients that made Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I a memorable stage experience have been faithfully transferred to the screen.
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Variety
Rating: 3/4 --
A beautiful film with a score I didn't much care for.
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Cinema Sight
Product Description:
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'"
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'"
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