Goofs for
The King and I (1956) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The King's earring during "Is a Puzzlement."
  
  
• Continuity: In the Shall We Dance Scene, Anna lays her shawl on the bench before the dance and the King sits on it. When the camera is on the king again, the shawl is no longer on the bench or on the floor.
  
  
• Continuity: The presence of the children when the King is praying for the success of his banquet.
  
  

• Factual errors: There could have been no scarlet macaws (from South America) in a Siamese marketplace.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The map of the world prominently visible in the classroom shows parts of the Arctic and Antarctic regions that hadn't yet been explored or mapped in 1862.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The map displayed in the class room showed a contiguous 48 United States, although many of those states, especially in the west, had not achieved statehood in 1865.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the market place scene which is supposed to take place in Southeast Asia, one of the elephants is an African elephant.
  
  
• Continuity: After Tuptim is found and the King throws the whip down, the whip is in front of the pillar. When the guards take Tuptim away, the whip has moved to the side of the pillar.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The map of the world shows a separate Norway. It was not until 1905 that Norway separated from Sweden and became an independent kingdom.
  
  
• Continuity: When the children are being presented to Anna, one of them turns and walks away instead of backing away as would be expected and the King reacts with surprise. The child recognizes the mistake but then continues to back away; however, in the next shot as the next child approaches Anna the first child is seen to be in front of Anna again, this time backing away properly.
  
  
• Factual errors: Tuptim's play "Small House of Uncle Thomas" is an inaccurate hodgepodge of characters and scenes from the original book, but this can easily be understood as her best interpretation of the story as a new speaker of English who wants to use the story for her own purposes to change the King's heart. However, few of the references to Buddha or Buddhism within the song are depicted accurately and shows a clear Western interpretation of the religion. Some specific examples are that Buddhists do not view Buddha as God but rather as the founder of their teachings and the first to attain Enlightenment, they do not therefore pray to Buddha for help and guidance, they do not believe in angels, and they do not believe that Buddha calls them to his presence when they die; all of these are strictly Christian beliefs, most likely used in the story for the purpose of relating to a Western audience.
  
  

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