Anna and the King of Siam

In 1862, Anna Owens (Irene Dunne) steps off a ship at Bangkok with her young son, hired to teach the king's many wives and children. John Cromwell sends her through the palace gates and into a household of gold, silk and strict custom, where King Mongkut (Rex Harrison) rules over every hour. She came to work, but the days she spends arguing with him grow into a bond neither one can easily name.