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You've got to love musical theater to love this, and you have to be willing to be compassionate towards past generations' ideas as what was politically correct or not; given these conditions, this movie is pleasure-packed, moment by moment. Its songs out of context can seem thin. In context, they are mostly rich an delightful. The movie is all about equality v. monarchy and women's rights, and as is more politically progressive than many superficially more PC films made now. The visuals are so splendid they could almost take away from the story telling, but they don't quite. They just give pleasure and more pleasure. Acting award to both principles, Brynner and Kerr.
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