The King and I

Typically overproduced.

All the ingredients that made Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I a memorable stage experience have been faithfully transferred to the screen.

Over-long but visually spectacular.

If you don't...see [The King and I], believe us, you'll be missing a grand and moving thing.

It has many outdated elements but I do enjoy the songs and performances

The epic romance never really evolves or culminates, though Anna's hope that she's set into motion a progressive, gradual curtailing of barbaric rule is gratifying.

Already saluted here but deserving another mention. It's a glorious musical, by far the best Rodgers-and-Hammerstein show ever filmed.

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.

A beautiful film with a score I didn't much care for.