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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s
the described movies The King and I from 1956, and Dial M for Murder from 1954.
The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang, and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.
The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, based in turn on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.
That novel in turn was based on memoirs written by Anna Leonowens, who became schoolteacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s.
Leonowens' stories were autobiographical, although various elements of them have been called into question.
The film stars Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner.
The film was a critical and commercial success, and was nominated for 9 Oscars, winning 5, including Best Actor for Brynner.
An animated film adaptation of the same musical was released in 1999.
On February 12, 2021, Paramount Pictures and Temple Hill Entertainment announced that another live-action film version was in development.
Directed by: Walter Lang.
Screenplay by: Ernest Lehman.
Based on: The King and I: by : Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II: Anna and the King of Siam: by : Margaret Landon.
Produced by: Charles Brackett.
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, and Rex Thompson.
Cinematography: Leon Shamroy.
Edited by: Robert Simpson.
Music by: Richard Rodgers.
Distributed by 20th Century-Fox.
Release date: 28 June 1956.
File Length: 133 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $4.55 million.
Box office: $21.3 million.
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams.
Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott.
The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York's Broadway in October.
Originally intended to be shown in dual-strip polarized 3-D, the film played in most theatres in ordinary 2-D due to the loss of interest in the 3-D process (the projection of which was difficult and error-prone) by the time of its release.
The film earned an estimated $2.7 million in North American box office sales in 1954.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Screenplay by: Frederick Knott.
Based on: Dial M for Murder: by : Frederick Knott.
Produced by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, and Anthony Dawson.
Cinematography: Robert Burks.
Edited by: Rudi Fehr.
Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin.
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Release dates: 18 May 1954 (Philadelphia), and 29 May 1954 (US).
File Length: 100 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1.4 million.
Box office: $6 million.
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