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The Mouse That Roared
1959 · Film · 83 min
Directed by Jack Arnold
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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It's a comedy, one I feel I ought to watch at some point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared_(film)
See the movie "The Mouse That Roared". Having seen the results of Germany and Japan being bombed and rebuilt by the US, a small fictional country comes up with the brilliant development plan of intentionally starting and losing a war with the US. Spoiler alert: they end up having to deal with the tragedy of accidentally winning the war. As I recall, part of it was they just assumed their generals would lose, so the generals weren't in on the plan.
See also the (old) movie, "The Mouse that Roared". Follows exactly that theme. Peter Sellers playing about four different roles.
It’s a film called “The Mouse that Roared” with Peter Sellers; a very funny movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/).
Have you ever heard of the movie "The Mouse that Roared"?
Probably "Dr Strangelove". Everyone knows that we didn't have the adequate technology to make movies starring one person in three different roles in 1964. Peter Sellers was cloned for the three separate roles in "The Mouse That Roared" in 1959, and then two of the clones were murdered once the "Dr Strangelove" was completed. Both movies were filmed on a sound stage controlled and built by the CIA.