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A King in New York
Comedy, Drama
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy socially pointed comedy that balances broad physical humor with melancholy observations about mass media and political intolerance.
- Tone
- satirical, darkly comic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- political persecution, celebrity culture, exile, modernity, authoritarianism
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, bustling modern metropolis
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