The Mouse That Roared poster
Director Jack Arnold
Screenplay Stanley Mann, Roger MacDougall

The Mouse That Roared

Comedy1959

Tagline: They're taking over the country in an invasion of laughs!

Release Date: 1959-07-17

Duration: 83 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Jean Seberg
    Helen Kokintz
  • Peter Sellers
    Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
  • William Hartnell
    Will Buckley
  • Leo McKern
    Benter
  • Timothy Bateson
    Roger
  • Eve Eden
    Spectator (uncredited)
  • Austin Willis
    United States Secretary of Defense
  • Monte Landis
    Cobbley
  • Colin Gordon
    BBC Announcer
  • Guy Deghy
    Soviet Ambassador (uncredited)