They're taking over the country in an invasion of laughs!
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.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20247/10
Peter Sellars plays just about everyone in this light-hearted comedy about a tiny European Grand Duchy that comes up with a cunning plan to address it's shocking balance of trade problems. It decides to invade the United States! Armed with little more than halbards, helmets and lances, they sail into New work harbour and take the place unopposed. What's going on? They fully expected to be arrested so that would allow Prime Minister "Rupert of Mountjoy" (Sellars) to present the case of his Sovereign "Gloriana" (Sellars) to stop a Californian vineyard from flooding the market with their own cheap plonk version of the only product "Grand Fenwick" has to offer the world - wine! Well, as it happens they arrive just as the local citizenry are taking part in a mandatory nuclear drill and so the place is deserted. The plucky "Tully" (yep you've guessed) alights on a plan to capitalise on their advantage by kidnapping the acclaimed scientist "Kokintz" (David Kossoff) who is developing his mighty "Q-bomb" and getting back home. Once there, the little country finds itself the centre of global attention the likes of which has never been seen; everyone is terrified of this ticking contraption a
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Cast
- Peter SellersGrand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
- Jean SebergHelen Kokintz
- William HartnellWill Buckley
- David KossoffProfessor Alfred Kokintz
- Leo McKernBenter
- MacDonald ParkeGeneral Snippet
- Austin WillisUnited States Secretary of Defense
- Timothy BatesonRoger
- Monte LandisCobbley
- Alan GiffordAir Raid Warden
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- Jack ArnoldDirector
- Roger MacDougallScreenplay
- Stanley MannScreenplay
- Leonard WibberleyNovel
- John WilcoxDirector of Photography
- Edwin AstleyOriginal Music Composer
- Raymond PoultonEditor
- Walter ShensonProducer
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