Il ruggito del topo (1959)
Stremato dalla concorrenza californiana, il piccolo Ducato di Fenwick, è sull'orlo della bancarotta. Il governo escogita un rimedio machiavellico: dichiarare guerra agli Stati Uniti, perderla e, quindi, usufruire degli aiuti economici che il vincitore sarà disposto a concedere. Un esercito di 20 uomini si imbarca alla volta di New York per aprire le ostilità. Ma il caso vuole che i soldati sbarchino il giorno in cui si sta svolgendo un'esercitazione antiatomica e gli invasori si aggirano per le strade deserte nella vana speranza di incontrare un americano al quale arrendersi. L'unica persona che il comandante Tully Bascombe incontra è il professor Kokintz, intento a perfezionare un rivoluzionario ordigno nucleare. Bascombe, con un colpo di audacia, lo fa prigioniero insieme alla figlia Helen e lo trasporta a Fenwick. Il mondo intero adesso teme la forza militare del piccolo Ducato e tutte le nazioni si affrettano a trattare. Le casse del minuscolo Stato tornano a riempirsi...
Direttore:
Jack Arnold
Scrittori:
Roger MacDougall, Stanley Mann.
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Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe |
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Jean Seberg as Helen Kokintz |
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William Hartnell as Will Buckley |
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David Kossoff as Professor Alfred Kokintz |
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Leo McKern as Benter |
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MacDonald Parke as General Snippet |
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Austin Willis as United States Secretary of Defense |
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Timothy Bateson as Roger |
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Monte Landis as Cobbley |
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Alan Gifford as Air Raid Warden |
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Colin Gordon as BBC Announcer |
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Harold Kasket as Pedro |
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Guy Deghy as Soviet Ambassador (uncredited) |
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Eve Eden as Spectator (uncredited) |
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Bill Edwards as Army Captain (uncredited) |
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Mabel Etherington as Ada - Lady in Waiting (uncredited) |
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Muriel Greenslade as Lady in Waiting (uncredited) |
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Fred Haggerty as Fenwickian (uncredited) |
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Juba Kennerley as Maybury (uncredited) |
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George Margo as O'Hara (uncredited) |
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Lionel Murton as American General at the Pentagon (uncredited) |
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Bill Nagy as U.S. Policeman (uncredited) |
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Robert O'Neil as Reporter (uncredited) |
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Pat Ryan as American General (uncredited) |
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Stuart Saunders as Sergeant (uncredited) |
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Fred Stroud as Fenwickian (uncredited) |
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John Tatum as American Admiral (uncredited) |
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Mavis Villiers as Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
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Fred Wood as Bird Seller (uncredited) |
| Directing | Jack Arnold | Director |
| Writing | Roger MacDougall | Screenplay |
| Writing | Stanley Mann | Screenplay |
| Writing | Leonard Wibberley | Novel |
| Production | Walter Shenson | Producer |
| Sound | Edwin Astley | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | John Wilcox | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Raymond Poulton | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Gerald Endler | Mechanical Designer |
| Production | Jon Penington | Associate Producer |
| Production | Leon Becker | Production Supervisor |
| Art | Geoffrey Drake | Art Direction |
| Production | James H. Ware | Production Manager |
| Art | Maurice Binder | Title Designer |
| Camera | Austin Dempster | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Red Law | Sound |
| Sound | George Stephenson | Sound |
| Directing | Philip Shipway | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Pamela Davies | Continuity |
| Sound | Richard Marden | Sound Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Stuart Freeborn | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | John Winbolt | Second Unit Cinematographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anthony Mendleson | Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joyce James | Hairdresser |
| Sound | Edwin Astley | Conductor |
