The Mouse That Roared (1959)
They're taking over the country in an invasion of laughs!
83 min
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.
- Release date
- July 17, 1959
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
Trailer
Cast
- Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII
- Peter Sellers as Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy
- Peter Sellers as Tully Bascombe
- Jean Seberg as Helen Kokintz
- William Hartnell as Will Buckley
- David Kossoff as Doctor Alfred Kokintz
- Leo McKern as Benter
- MacDonald Parke as General Snippet
- Austin Willis as United States Secretary of Defense
- Timothy Bateson as Roger
- Monte Landis as Cobbley
- Alan Gifford as Air Raid Warden
Crew
- Jack Arnold · Director
- Roger MacDougall · Writer
- Stanley Mann · Writer
- Leonard Wibberley · Writer
- Walter Shenson · Producer
- Edwin Astley · Composer
- John Wilcox · Cinematographer
- Raymond Poulton · Editor