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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Mouse That Roared, it turns Cold War-era institutions into wildly disproportionate targets, maintaining a deadpan tone while escalating from civic absurdity to gleeful bureaucratic lunacy.
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Why this pick
Peter Sellers again anchors a precise, escalating farce: an innocent outsider’s small social blunders snowball into exquisitely choreographed chaos, with the same light, mischievous comic spirit.
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Why this pick
A smart, brisk British satire in which one disruptive invention exposes the self-interest of powerful institutions—witty, whimsical, and sharper underneath its cheerful absurdity.
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Why this pick
Grand Fenwick returns in a follow-up that sends its miniature-state logic into the space race, preserving the original’s playful geopolitical spoofing and proudly outsized ambitions.
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Why this pick
Its elegant, increasingly impossible chain of comic complications matches the buoyant precision of The Mouse That Roared: a small practical problem grows into a wonderfully unreal social farce.
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01 / THE STORY
The minuscule European Duchy of Grand Fenwick is bankrupted when an American company comes up with a cheaper imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. Crafty Prime Minister, Count Mountjoy (Peter Sellers), devises a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United States, then surrender, taking advantage of American ''largesse'' toward its defeated enemies to rebuild the defeated nation's economy. Grand Duchess Gloriana (also Sellers) is hesitant but agrees to the plan. Mild-mannered game warden Tully Bascomb (also Sellers) is charged as Field Marshal to lead the Fenwick troops, aided by Sergeant Will Buckley (William Hartnell).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Roger
Air Raid Warden
Pedro
Will Buckley
Benter
United States Secretary of Defense
Cobbley
BBC Announcer
