At the elegant after-party attended by Palmer and the charismatic Lermontov, Lady Isabel had arranged for her niece, professional ballet dancer Vicky, to give a surprise dance performance for the assembled group to impress Lermontov.C."Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon).He is employed in a large impersonal Manhattan insurance firm - as an average hard-working, upwardly-mobile American employee, he describes his powerless position in life in the opening voice-over narration, as the film opens with aerial helicopter views of the city:On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783.Why there isn""t a poor Saxon in all of Nottinghamshire that doesn""t know and bless Sir Robin of Locksley.The Cinemascopic 20th Century Fox film featured the signature roles of both Oscar-winner (and Tony-winner) Yul Brynner (a Russian actor as the bald-headed, bare-footed King Mongkut of Siam) and Oscar-nominated Deborah Kerr (as feminist British tutor Anna Leonowens)." In the meantime, Ryan personally was traveling to Colombia ("with no security") to try and sort out the mess, not knowing that he had been set up -- Clark was told assuringly by Cutter: "Once Ryan""s gone, we""re back on-line.