The Mouse on the Moon (1963)

Directors

Richard Lester

Cast

Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff, Terry-Thomas

The story

Financial disaster looms for Grand Fenwick when the current vintage of its only export, wine, starts exploding in would-be consumers' faces. Prime Minister Mountjoy decides to ask the United States for a loan, ostensibly to fund its entry in the race to the Moon, but actually to save the duchy (and both introduce television and install modern plumbing so he can have a hot bath). The devious politician knows that the Americans will not believe him, but will consider the half million dollars he is asking for to be cheap propaganda supporting their hollow call for international co-operation in space.

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