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Released
1956 · FILM

The King and I

A widowed English tutor battles a proud Siamese monarch to modernize his court and win over skeptical diplomats before a crucial state banquet threatens their fragile alliance.

“More than your eyes have ever seen… More than your heart has ever known!”

Directed by
Walter Lang
Written by
Ernest Lehman, Oscar Hammerstein Ii
Runtime
133 min
BiographyDramaMusical
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs, and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert L SimpsonShot by Leon ShamroyScored by Richard Rodgers

Box Office

1956 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$21.3M

Budget$4.5M
Worldwide gross$21.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der König und Ichde
  • Der König von Siamde
  • El rey y yoes
  • Le Roi et moifr
  • Il re ed ioit

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