King Ralph is a 1991 American comedy film starring John Goodman in the title role of Ralph Jones. The movie also stars Peter O'Toole as the King's private secretary Sir Cedric Willingham, Camille Coduri as Ralph's girlfriend Miranda Greene, and John Hurt as the British peer Percival Graves, who schemes to get Ralph removed so that Parliament will make Graves the new King.
The story is loosely based on the novel Headlong by Emlyn Williams. Very li...
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King Ralph is a 1991 American comedy film starring John Goodman in the title role of Ralph Jones. The movie also stars Peter O'Toole as the King's private secretary Sir Cedric Willingham, Camille Coduri as Ralph's girlfriend Miranda Greene, and John Hurt as the British peer Percival Graves, who schemes to get Ralph removed so that Parliament will make Graves the new King.
The story is loosely based on the novel Headlong by Emlyn Williams. Very little of the story survived the transition to the screen; characters were changed and the story made into a comedy. The film was a box office flop.
In the film, the entire Wyndham family (based on the real-world House of Windsor), which in this film is the current ruling family of the United Kingdom, is wiped out in a freak accident. The family is together for the first time in six years when they are electrocuted after the metal platforms they are standing on for a family photograph become wet during a storm. There are no known members of the...
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