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The Mouse That Roared

Play trailer Poster for The Mouse That Roared 1959,  1h 23m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 90% 21 Reviews Tomatometer 73% 2,500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
90% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 73% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
When the tiny nation of Grand Fenwick's only export, a special wine, begins to be produced in California, their entire economy collapses. Things look dire until Prime Minister Rupert Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) points out that no country that has declared war on the United States has ever gone hungry. When Field Marshall Tully Bascombe (Peter Sellers) and the 23 other men in the Grand Fenwick army invade the United States, their plan to immediately surrender unravels.

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Jay Jacobs The Reporter Feb 7, 2022
It pokes a good deal of fun at a number of aspects of the contemporary scene that the movies have heretofore hardly considered prime material for levity (e.g., the State Department... the arms race, motion-picture audiences, and the movies themselves). Go to Full Review
Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine Oct 31, 2019
Strained though it becomes before the finish, this British comedy is worth seeing. Go to Full Review
Isabel Quigly The Spectator Jul 18, 2018
The Mouse that Roared might be filed away like old Punches to show our grandchildren what Stout Party collapsed at in 1959. Go to Full Review
Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Mar 31, 2008
2/5
Stira anti-belicista que envelheceu mal e cuja relevncia diz respeito apenas performance de Sellers como a gr-duquesa de Fenwick. Go to Full Review
Susan Granger www.susangranger.com Nov 9, 2007
4/5
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jan 20, 2007
C
Sellers distinguished himself only in his role in drag. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Jack Arnold

Director

Peter Sellers

Grand Duchess Gloriana XII

Jean Seberg

Helen Kokintz

David Kossoff

Professor Alfred Kokintz

William Hartnell

Will Buckley

Timothy Bateson

Roger

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The Mouse That Roared

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Synopsis When the tiny nation of Grand Fenwick's only export, a special wine, begins to be produced in California, their entire economy collapses. Things look dire until Prime Minister Rupert Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) points out that no country that has declared war on the United States has ever gone hungry. When Field Marshall Tully Bascombe (Peter Sellers) and the 23 other men in the Grand Fenwick army invade the United States, their plan to immediately surrender unravels.
Director
Jack Arnold
Producer
Jon Penington, Jack Arnold, Walter Shenson, Carl Foreman
Screenwriter
Leonard Wibberley, Roger MacDougall, Stanley Mann
Distributor
RCA/Columbia, Columbia Pictures
Production Co
Open Road
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 26, 1959, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 16, 2012
Runtime
1h 23m
Sound Mix
Mono
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