The Mouse That Roared

1959 83 min ★ 6.3 Comedy

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.

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Cast

Peter Sellers

Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe

Jean Seberg

Helen Kokintz

William Hartnell

Will Buckley

David Kossoff

Professor Alfred Kokintz

Leo McKern

Benter

MacDonald Parke

General Snippet

Austin Willis

United States Secretary of Defense

Timothy Bateson

Roger

Monte Landis

Cobbley

Alan Gifford

Air Raid Warden

Details

Director

Jack Arnold

Screenplay

Roger MacDougall

Tagline

"They're taking over the country in an invasion of laughs!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Highroad Productions, Columbia Pictures

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

July 3, 2024

★ 7/10

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...