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The Mouse That Roared
Why this pick
Like Mackendrick’s fable, it turns an absurdly small premise into a witty social and political satire, with escalating consequences played in a crisp, lightly surreal tone.
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MOVIE1951 1h 25m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Sidney Stratton, a brilliant young research chemist and former University of Cambridge scholarship recipient, has been dismissed from jobs at several textile mills in the Northern England because of his demands for expensive facilities and his obsession with inventing an everlasting fibre. Whilst working as a labourer at the Birnley Mill, he accidentally becomes an unpaid researcher and invents an incredibly strong fibre which repels dirt and never wears out. From this fabric, a suit is made—which is brilliant white because it cannot absorb dye and slightly luminous because it includes radioactive elements.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Michael Gough
Michael Corland
Howard Marion-Crawford
Cranford
Miles Malleson
The Tailor
Patric Doonan
Frank
Harold Goodwin
Wilkins
Arthur Howard
Roberts
Desmond Roberts
Mannering
Ewan Roberts
Fotheringay