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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Roger MacDougall (writer)
Stanley Mann (writer)
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Release Date:
26 October 1959 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Hilarous Story of How the Duchy of Grand Fenwick Waged War on the U.S. - and Won
Plot:
An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose. full summary | full synopsis
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(2 articles)
[DVD Review] Being There: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
(From JustPressPlay. 1 February 2009, 10:34 PM, PST)
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(From The AV Club. 24 July 2008, 8:43 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
A good, trim, well paced satire brimming with irony more (49 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Peter Sellers | ... | Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe |
 | Jean Seberg | ... | Helen Kokintz |
 | William Hartnell | ... | Will Buckley |
| David Kossoff | ... | Professor Alfred Kokintz |
| Leo McKern | ... | Benter |
| MacDonald Parke | ... | General Snippet |
| Austin Willis | ... | United States Secretary of Defense |
| Timothy Bateson | ... | Roger |
| Monte Landis | ... | Cobbley |
| Alan Gifford | ||
| Colin Gordon | ... | BBC Announcer |
| Harold Kasket | ... | Pedro |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
The Day New York Was Invaded (UK) (working title)
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Runtime:
83 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Iceland:L | Argentina:Atp | Finland:K-8 | UK:U | USA:Unrated | West Germany:12 | Sweden:Btl
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Among the musical quotations used in the film were excerpts from Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture" and a number of American marches, including a number of passages from "Our Director". more
Goofs:
Continuity: During the Institute for Physics scene, Professor Kokintz addresses Tully as both "Grand Marshall" and "Mr. Constable", but nowhere in the preceding dialogue is Tully introduced as such. Prof. Kokintz couldn't have known his two titles. more
Quotes:
General Snippet:
I warn you, madam - I know the entire Geneva Convention by heart!
Grand Duchess Gloriana:
Oh, how nice! You must recite it for me some evening; I play the harpsichord.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Romeo and Juliet Love Theme more
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This little satire of the cold war has none of the smug reactionary stances that the original novel had. It takes aim at great powers and small no-powers, it skewers democracies (like the US and Britain) and aristocracies (like the grand duchy of Fenwick and Britain) and shows absolutely no mercy.
Done when Peter Sellers was in his "fat boy" period, this well cut little movie has to be placed in context in order to be appreciated fully. 40 years ago the world was quite different, and this movie reminds you of it. See something totally different from the same period, like Rear Window by Hitchcock to get you in the spirit of the times.