Watch The Mouse That Roared (1959) Free Online

Release Date: 1959

Cast: Alan Gifford, Monte Landis, MacDonald Parke, Austin Willis, Timothy Bateson, Colin Gordon, Leo McKern, Jean Seberg, Peter Sellers, David Kossoff, William Hartnell

Categories: Movies, Political Cinema, Satire, Comedy, Parody, Political Satire

The Mouse That Roared is a 1955 Cold War satirical novel by Irish-American writer Leonard Wibberley, which launched a series of satirical books about an imaginary country in Europe called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. Wibberley went beyond the merely comic, using the premise to make still-quoted commentaries about modern politics and world situations. Released in February 1955 by Little, Brown, the novel first appeared under the title The Day New York Was Invaded as a Saturday Evening Post serial in six consecutive weeks, from Christmas Day, 1954, through 29 January 1955. The English edition... MORE

The Mouse That Roared is a 1955 Cold War satirical novel by Irish-American writer Leonard Wibberley, which launched a series of satirical books about an imaginary country in Europe called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. Wibberley went beyond the merely comic, using the premise to make still-quoted commentaries about modern politics and world situations. Released in February 1955 by Little, Brown, the novel first appeared under the title The Day New York Was Invaded as a Saturday Evening Post serial in six consecutive weeks, from Christmas Day, 1954, through 29 January 1955. The English edition (London: Robert Hale, 1955) had the author's original title, "The Wrath of Grapes", a play on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Wibberley wrote four sequels—Beware of the Mouse (1958), The Mouse on the Moon (1962), The Mouse on Wall Street (1969), and The Mouse that Saved the West (1981). Each placed Fenwick in a series of absurd situations in which it faced superpowers and won. The book takes a satirical look at themes including the nuclear arms race, nuclear weapons in general, and the politics of the United States. The phrase "mouse that roared" has proved a durable meme. The tiny (three LESS