The film declined to provide a tagline, instead choosing imagery over words on its poster, which featured in 40""s art deco, the detective - his back facing the viewer, smoking a cigarette, with the smoke emanating from it forming the visage of the heroine, signifying the setting, the mood, and symbolism of the film without uttering a single phrase.Oh it paid me, sure, in money I couldn""t hang on to.Fair-weather friends, women, headlines! Hah! Why even the cops and the newsboys recognize me on sight - Marsh, the Magnificent, Marsh the Slave-Driver! Actors tell you how Marsh drove ""em and bullied ""em and even tore it out of ""em! And maybe there""s a few that""ll tell you how Marsh really made ""em.g., Mathew Brady""s Civil War photographs)impressive, splendidly-staged battle scenes with hundreds of extras (made to appear as thousands)extensive cross-cutting between two scenes to create a montage-effect and generate excitement and suspense (e.Faulkner).Plot SynopsisEnglish Schoolteacher Anna""s Arrival in Bangkok, Siam:In the film""s opening set in 1862, widowed, prim and Victorian English (Welsh) schoolteacher/governess Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr) arrived from Wales by ship (helmed by Captain Orton (Charles Irwin)) in Bangkok, Siam (present-day Thailand).However, Bill Sr.demonstrates relief and thankfulness hat the effeminate passenger doesn""t appear to be his son.As young Bill entertains and attempts to pacify a crying baby in a buggy (around he corner and out of the sight of his father) with crazy dancing, Bill Sr.