Movie
The Mouse That Roared
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1959-07-17
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Highroad Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
- Jean Seberg as Helen Kokintz
- William Hartnell as Will Buckley
- David Kossoff as Professor 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
- Colin Gordon as BBC Announcer
- Harold Kasket as Pedro
Crew
- Jack Arnold - Director
- Roger MacDougall - Screenplay
- Stanley Mann - Screenplay
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