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The Mouse That Roared

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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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Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: 4/5 Nov 24, 2002 Full Review Jay Jacobs The Reporter 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). Feb 7, 2022 Full Review Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine Strained though it becomes before the finish, this British comedy is worth seeing. Oct 31, 2019 Full Review Isabel Quigly The Spectator The Mouse that Roared might be filed away like old Punches to show our grandchildren what Stout Party collapsed at in 1959. Jul 18, 2018 Full Review Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Stira anti-belicista que envelheceu mal e cuja relevncia diz respeito apenas performance de Sellers como a gr-duquesa de Fenwick. Rated: 2/5 Mar 31, 2008 Full Review Susan Granger www.susangranger.com Rated: 4/5 Nov 9, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Robson C O ducado de Grand Fenwick é o menor país do mundo que fica nos Alpes franceses. O seu principal produto é um vinho cuja produção é toda vendida aos Estados Unidos. Tudo muda quando um produtor de vinhos nos Estados Unidos consegue produzir um vinho com gosto semelhante ao do ducado, o que leva o pequeno país a uma crise. Então, eles decidem declarar guerra aos Estados Unidos, na verdade, com a intenção de que recebam investimentos da grande potência. Porém o que parecia ser um grande plano acaba por meter o pequeno país em uma confusão internacional. Peter Sellers brilha aqui nesta pequena comédia de baixo orçamento, fazendo três papéis: a Grã-Duquesa, governante de Grand Fenwick, o primeiro-ministro e Tully Bascombe, guarda florestal e comandante do exército de 20 homens do ducado. O filme é claro critica a corrida armamentista. Afinal, na época estávamos em plena Guerra Fria e as grandes potências miravam sempre na produção de armas de grande poder de destruição. É uma comédia deliciosa, que conta tanto com um texto cheio de ironias quanto também aberto a performances mais físicas como as de Sellers. A cena que a personagem de Jean Seberg tenta seduzi-lo no navio, enquanto ele está sofrendo de enjoos é muito divertida. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/01/24 Full Review Morgan T This is one of my all time favorite movies. Peter Sellers plays several of the main characters and brings a strong anti war message through an emphasis on the hypocrisy of wanting peace by preparing for war. The Peter sellers characters are quite hilarious and appropriate. It's an old movie (1959) but let's me laugh at ourselves. Also leaves the doors open for true love to find itself in the strangest of situations. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Dated but a funny cold war satire, Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Liam D A Wacky over the top movie outside of Jack Arnold's (This Island Earth, High School Confidential!) wheelhouse with Peter Sellers (Never Let Go, The Black Rose) firing at all cylinders Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/22 Full Review delysid d it entertained me for one rainy day Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/17/21 Full Review Audience Member I was disappointed by the much-hyped "Dr. Strangelove" movie, which I found overlong, dreary, and unrealistic (as mentioned in my review of that movie). However, this movie, which also has Peter Sellers starring in three roles and is themed on the Cold War, is far better and far funnier. A dinky European kingdom needs money, so it decides to send a group of chain-mail armored soldiers, armed with crossbows, on a boat the New York City with the idea that the soldiers would fight with the United States and lose, getting a heap of aid money as a result the way Western Europe did. But the residents of New York City happen to be hiding under the streets as part of a nuclear-attack drill, with only a few people above the streets, scuttling the original plan. On top of that, American scientists have invented a "Q-bomb" which can destroy most of America, and it falls into the invaders' hands. What to do? The story, visuals, and acting are quite humorous, and the movie manages to skewer its targets. Definitely the better of the Cold War movie satires. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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