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King Ralph is a 1991 American comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward and starring John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, and John Hurt. The film is about a fired American lounge singer who becomes the unlikely King of the United Kingdom after an electrical accident wipes out the British royal family.
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Hollywood, despite being founded in country proud of its republicanism and anti-aristocratic roots, always had something of a soft spot for British monarchy. That phenomenon is usually explained with the need to provide the public with mix of tradition, spectacle and mystique Hollywood could not find elsewhere. It could have been observed even in 1990s, when Hollywood films treated every other aspect of Britain in a…More
