| Release Date: | Jul 1959 |
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| Genre: | Comedy |
| Runtime: | 83 min |
| Cast: | Peter Sellers (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) Wally Brown (Air Raid Warden in Physics Lab...) Jacques Cey (Ticket Collector (uncredited)) Charles Clay (British Ambassador (uncredited)) Henry De Bray (French Ambassador (uncredited)) Guy Deghy (Soviet Ambassador (uncredited)) Bill Edwards (Army Captain (uncredited)) Richard Gatehouse (Mulligan (uncredited)) Art Gilmore (Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)) George Margo (O'Hara (uncredited)) Lionel Murton (American General at the Pentagon...) Bill Nagy (U.S. Policeman (uncredited)) Robert O'Neill (Reporter (uncredited)) Stuart Saunders (Cunard Captain (uncredited)) Ken Stanley (Cunard Second Officer (uncredited)) Mavis Villiers (Telephone Operator (uncredited)) |
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 to New York (armed with longbows) which arrives during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets. Wandering about to find someone to surrender to, they discover a scientist with a special ultimate weapon that can destroy the Earth. When they capture him and his bomb they are faced with a new possibility: What do you do when you win a war?
