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Rating: 6.3/10 by 115 users

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.

Directing:
  • Jack Arnold
  • Philip Shipway
  • Pamela Davies
Writing:
  • Leonard Wibberley
  • Roger MacDougall
  • Stanley Mann
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, Jul 17, 1959

Rating: 6.3/10 by 115 users

Alternative Title:
Az ordító egér - HU
Рёв мыши - RU
老鼠不发威 - CN
鼠吼记 - CN
喧闹的老鼠 - CN
鼠吼奇谈 - CN

Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 23 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0

Plot Keyword: new york city, satire

Peter Sellers
Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
Jean Seberg
Helen Kokintz
David Kossoff
Professor Alfred Kokintz
MacDonald Parke
General Snippet
Austin Willis
United States Secretary of Defense
Alan Gifford
Air Raid Warden
Colin Gordon
BBC Announcer
Guy Deghy
Soviet Ambassador (uncredited)
Eve Eden
Spectator (uncredited)
Bill Edwards
Army Captain (uncredited)
Mabel Etherington
Ada - Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
Muriel Greenslade
Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
Fred Haggerty
Fenwickian (uncredited)
Juba Kennerley
Maybury (uncredited)
George Margo
O'Hara (uncredited)
Lionel Murton
American General at the Pentagon (uncredited)
Bill Nagy
U.S. Policeman (uncredited)
Robert O'Neil
Reporter (uncredited)
Pat Ryan
American General (uncredited)
Stuart Saunders
Sergeant (uncredited)
Fred Stroud
Fenwickian (uncredited)
John Tatum
American Admiral (uncredited)
Mavis Villiers
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Fred Wood
Bird Seller (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

Peter Sellars plays just about everyone in this light-hearted comedy about a tiny European Grand Duchy that comes up with a cunning plan to address it's shocking balance of trade problems. It decides to invade the United States! Armed with little more than halbards, helmets and lances, they sail into New work harbour and take the place unopposed. What's going on? They fully expected to be arrested so that would allow Prime Minister "Rupert of Mountjoy" (Sellars) to present the case of his Sovereign "Gloriana" (Sellars) to stop a Californian vineyard from flooding the market with their own cheap plonk version of the only product "Grand Fenwick" has to offer the world - wine! Well, as it happens they arrive just as the local citizenry are taking part in a mandatory nuclear drill and so the place is deserted. The plucky "Tully" (yep you've guessed) alights on a plan to capitalise on their advantage by kidnapping the acclaimed scientist "Kokintz" (David Kossoff) who is developing his mighty "Q-bomb" and getting back home. Once there, the little country finds itself the centre of global attention the likes of which has never been seen; everyone is terrified of this ticking contraption and "Tully" is entirely besotted with the professor's disgruntled daughter "Helen" (Jean Seberg). Two solutions seem equally possible - either "Grand Fenwick" is going to be the wealthiest country in the world - or, well, there just won't be a world! Sellars does well here but it's Kossoff who generates the best laughs as the eccentric boffin and Austin Willis also delivers quite entertainingly, if briefly, as the entirely befuddled US Defense Secretary. It's not exactly laugh out loud, but it's sheer preposterousness takes quite an enjoyable ping at the whole principle of weapons of mass destruction, of the big guy stepping on the little one and is quite good fun.


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