The Mouse That Roared

1959
Approved
1h 23m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

9.6K

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Comedy

An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

9.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

General Snippet
(as Macdonald Parke)

Austin Willis

United States Secretary of Defense

Timothy Bateson

Roger

Monte Landis

Cobbley
(as Monty Landis)

Alan Gifford

Air Raid Warden

Colin Gordon

BBC Announcer

Harold Kasket

Pedro

Joe Beckett

American General
(uncredited)

Nigel Bernard

Fenwickian MP
(uncredited)

Wally Brown

Air Raid Warden
(uncredited)

Jacques Cey

Ticket Collector
(uncredited)

Charles Clay

British Ambassador
(uncredited)

Henry De Bray

French Ambassador
(uncredited)

Director
- Jack Arnold
Writers
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Storyline

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Trivia
Jack Arnold soon learned that Peter Sellers did his best work on the first take and was usually useless by take three. The actor, schooled in improvisation, couldn't keep the lines fresh if he had to say them over and over.

Goofs
After Grand Fenwick's army sets sail for home, the headlines in one American newspapers (the San Francisco Review) talks about war mobilisation. American newspapers would spell it mobilization.

Quotes
Grand Duchess Gloriana: How did the war go?
Tulley Bascombe: Well, Your Grace, we're home. Actually, there's been a slight change of plan. I know it will come as a surprise, a pleasant one, I hope, but we sort of won.
Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy: You sort of WHAT?

Crazy credits
The Columbia Pictures logo in the beginning has the Torch Lady spot a mouse and run off.

The logo at the end of the film has the Lady return back to the logo.

Connections
Featured in Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)

Soundtracks
Romeo and Juliet Love Theme
(1868) (uncredited)
Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Played often in the score

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Featured review

7/10

Light, charming

Yes, the "joke" is rather a truism: declare war on the US, lose and then collect the massive foreign aid we always send... Peter Sellers has fun in his several roles, along with a cast of strong supporting actors. The standard "pretty blonde" is Jean Seberg -- who seems not to know what she's doing in this role: comedy was not the lady's strongpoint.

Yet there is something very gentle and charming that moves this film along. I suppose that little something could very well be that the "bottom line" for the tiny country was world peace... Not a bad concept.

Worth watching.