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Title Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I / 20th Century Fox ; Darryl F. Zanuck presents ; screenplay by Ernest Lehman ; music by Richard Rodgers ; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; produced by Charles Brackett ; directed by Walter Lang.

Publication Info. [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [1999]

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Description 1 videodisc (approximately 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Children language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
mixed
video file
System Details DVD format; Widescreen format (aspect ratio, 2.55:1).
Note Based on Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.
Cast Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, Terry Saunders, Rex Thompson.
Credits Music conductor, Alfred Newman; choreography, Jerome Robbins; director of photography, Leon Shamroy; editor, Robert Simpson.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.
Dolby digital; mono. (French soundtrack).
Summary An English schoolteacher finds herself at odds with the King of Siam when she is hired as the teacher at the royal court in the 1860s.
Audience MPAA rating: G.
Awards Academy Award winner in 1956 for best actor, best art direction, set direction, best sound recording, best scoring of a motion picture, and best costume design.
Language English and French soundtracks with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Genre/Form Musical films.
Musical films.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Subject Teachers -- Thailand -- Drama.
Teachers.
Thailand.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Thailand -- Kings and rulers -- Drama.
Kings and rulers.
Thailand -- Kings and rulers -- Children -- Drama.
Thailand -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Added Author Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979.
Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005, screenwriter.
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960, librettist, lyricist.
Brackett, Charles, 1892-1969, producer.
Lang, Walter, 1898-1972, director.
Kerr, Deborah, 1921-2007, actor.
Brynner, Yul, actor.
Moreno, Rita, actor.
Benson, Martin, 1918-2010, actor.
Saunders, Terry, actor.
Thompson, Rex, 1942- actor.
Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970, conductor.
Robbins, Jerome.
Shamroy, Leon, 1901-1974.
Simpson, Robert, 1910-1977, editor.
Landon, Margaret, 1903-1993. Anna and the King of Siam.
Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. King and I.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
Added Title King and I (Motion picture) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001005721
King and I
Music No. 4110826 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment