Bernard Cribbins, the veteran British actor who narrated The Wombles and starred in the popular film adaptation of The Railway Children, has died. He was 93.
Cribbins’ agent, Gavin Barker Associates, confirmed the news to Deadline in a statement.
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“Beloved actor Bernard Cribbins OBE has passed away at the age of 93. His career spanned seven decades with such diverse work ranging from films like The Railway Children and the Carry On series, hit 60’s song Right Said Fred a notorious guest on Fawlty Towers and narrating The Wombles,” the statement read. “He worked well into his 90s, recently appearing in Doctor Who and the CBeebies series Old Jack’s Boat. He lost his wife of 66 years, Gill, last year.”
The statement continued: “Bernard’s contribution to British entertainment is without question. He was unique, typifying the best of his generation, and will be greatly missed...
Cribbins’ agent, Gavin Barker Associates, confirmed the news to Deadline in a statement.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
“Beloved actor Bernard Cribbins OBE has passed away at the age of 93. His career spanned seven decades with such diverse work ranging from films like The Railway Children and the Carry On series, hit 60’s song Right Said Fred a notorious guest on Fawlty Towers and narrating The Wombles,” the statement read. “He worked well into his 90s, recently appearing in Doctor Who and the CBeebies series Old Jack’s Boat. He lost his wife of 66 years, Gill, last year.”
The statement continued: “Bernard’s contribution to British entertainment is without question. He was unique, typifying the best of his generation, and will be greatly missed...
- 7/28/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
An old-fashioned, ticking time-bomb suspense thriller, Richard Lester's Juggernaut (aka Terror on the Britannic) (1974) satisfies on the most elemental level: it made me increasingly tense and nervous as I watched. Lester made his directorial debut with the very charming The Mouse on the Moon (1963), then set a new high standard for music-themed films with the still fresh and remarkable A Hard Day's Night and Help!. As I admitted last year, however, "it's been perhaps 20 or 25 years since I tried his [other] 60s films, which didn't appeal to me at the time." I still haven't revised those films, but after enjoying Royal Flash (1975) last year, I couldn't resist stepping back a year or so to Juggernaut. (In this same time period,...
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- 6/6/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Ron Moody as Fagin in 'Oliver!' based on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist.' Ron Moody as Fagin in Dickens musical 'Oliver!': Box office and critical hit (See previous post: "Ron Moody: 'Oliver!' Actor, Academy Award Nominee Dead at 91.") Although British made, Oliver! turned out to be an elephantine release along the lines of – exclamation point or no – Gypsy, Star!, Hello Dolly!, and other Hollywood mega-musicals from the mid'-50s to the early '70s.[1] But however bloated and conventional the final result, and a cast whose best-known name was that of director Carol Reed's nephew, Oliver Reed, Oliver! found countless fans.[2] The mostly British production became a huge financial and critical success in the U.S. at a time when star-studded mega-musicals had become perilous – at times downright disastrous – ventures.[3] Upon the American release of Oliver! in Dec. 1968, frequently acerbic The...
- 6/19/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Costing less than 200,000 pounds (about a half-million U.S. dollars at the time), A Hard Day's Night was the first major big-screen assignment for Richard Lester, a Philadelphia native who’d emigrated to the U.K. in 1950 and would still erroneously be considered an “English director” decades later. He’d already done numerous TV shows as well as a more traditional film vehicle for rock/jazz acts (1962’s It's Trad, Dad!) and a more standard comedy (1963’s The Mouse on the Moon).>> - Dennis Harvey...
- 2/27/2015
- Keyframe
Costing less than 200,000 pounds (about a half-million U.S. dollars at the time), A Hard Day's Night was the first major big-screen assignment for Richard Lester, a Philadelphia native who’d emigrated to the U.K. in 1950 and would still erroneously be considered an “English director” decades later. He’d already done numerous TV shows as well as a more traditional film vehicle for rock/jazz acts (1962’s It's Trad, Dad!) and a more standard comedy (1963’s The Mouse on the Moon).>> - Dennis Harvey...
- 2/27/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
50th Anniversary Release of “The Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night”
Dir. Richard Lester • U.K. 1964 • Black & White • 1.75:1 • 87 minutes
New 4K Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
New 5.1 Surround Mix Produced by Giles Martin
Opening in theaters on July 4, 2014 in almost 100 cities
(Scroll to the end of the article for the locations and theaters).
Courtesy of Janus Films
This is a Cheeky, Raucous, Irreverent film that will make most warm-blooded mammals laugh from the first scene, until the last! It is brilliant for a summer night out!
If you are a film or music fan, you most likely have already seen “A Hard Day’s Night” before, however, make a summertime date with the famous Fab Four, and see it again on the big screen, with the new restoration, at an art house cinema, and you really can’t go wrong.
It is necessary to give accolades to the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, because, “if it weren’t for Elvis, there would never have been any Beatles.” John Lennon had admitted, that from the moment he first learned about Elvis and saw all the attention that he was receiving, he wanted to be just like him.
So although, there is no denying that the Beatles changed music forever, it was really Elvis who was the King of their inspiration.
For those who have not seen “A Hard Day’s Night” before, the Beatles had already been a popular recording act, with several Top 20 hits in the U.K., when they arrived in NYC to perform on the Ed Sullivan show on February 7, 1964. A record breaking 73 million viewers tuned in, and the British invasion began.
One month later, across the pond, the film was in the works. The music lover and film producer, Walter Shenson, was brought on by United Artists. Shenson, who had previously worked with Director, Richard Lester, on “The Mouse on the Moon,” mentioned the gist of the project, and Richard jumped at the opportunity.
However, to receive the final green light, the film had to be true to the way the Beatles actually lived, and scriptwriter, Alun Owen, who wrote the television play, “No Trams to Lime Street,” which depicted Liverpool, was chosen.
The film begins with the song “A Hard Day’s Night” playing while the Fab Four are running through town trying to make it to the train station on time before their train departs. Once on board, they start a conversation with an older gentleman, who Paul comments, is his grandfather. John is cheekily trying to snort a Coke (Coca-Cola) bottle up his nose in the background, and a business man wants the train car his way demanding that the windows be closed shut. The laughs just continue from there on out, when the boys are flirting with girls, and the grandfather cunningly tells the young women that the boys are really prisoners. An acoustic version of “I Should Have Known Better” is being played on the train.
Film director, Richard Lester, “relied on improvisation rather than rehearsal, creating a freshness that was clear on-screen.” “Before we started, we knew that it would be unlikely that they could (a) learn, (b) remember, or (c) deliver with any accuracy a long speech. So the structure of the script had to be a series of one-liners,” Lester later stated, “This enabled me, in many of the scenes, to turn a camera on them and say a line to them, and they would say it back to me.”
The result, the bandmates play brilliant, clever, crafty, and smart-alicky versions of themselves.
Lester’s visual style mixed techniques from narrative films, documentary, the French New Wave, and live television to create something that felt, and was, spontaneous. “I have seen directors who write down a list of scenes for the day, and then sit back in a chair while everything is filmed according to plan. I can’t do that. I know that good films can be made this way, but it’s not for me. I have to react on the spot. There was very little structure that was planned except that we knew that we had to punctuate the film with a certain number of songs.”
Recorded at Emi Studios in Abbey Road, London, they cut “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “And I Love Her,” “I Should Have Known Better,” “Tell Me Why,” “If I Fell,” and “I’m Happy Just to Dance with You,” in only three days.
Must See!
Summer Screenings
Alabama
Montgomery – Capri Theatre
Alaska
Anchorage – Bear Tooth Cinema
Arizona
Tucson – The Loft Cinema
Arkansas
Little Rock – Colonel Glenn 18
British Columbia
Vancouver – Pacific Cinematheque
California
Bakersfield – Valley Plaza
Berkeley – Rialto Elmwood
Eureka – Eureka Theater
La Mesa – Grossmont Center
Los Angeles – Cinefamily
Malibu – The Malibu Film Society
Modesto – State Theater
Monterey – Osio Cinemas
Mountain View – Century Cinemas 16
Murrieta – Reading Cinemas Cal Oaks
Oxnard – Century RiverPark
Palm Springs – Camelot Theatres
Pasadena – Laemmle Playhouse 7
Sacramento – Tower Theater
San Diego – Gaslamp
San Francisco – Castro Theatre
San Luis Obispo – Palm Theatre
San Rafael – Smith Rafael Film Center
Santa Cruz – Del Mar Theatre
Colorado
Fort Collins – Lyric Cinema Cafe
Littleton – Alamo Drafthouse
Connecticut
Hartford – Cinestudio
Milford – Connecticut Post 14
Delaware
Wilmington – Theatre N
Florida
Coral Gables – Coral Gables Art Cinema
Jacksonville – Sun-Ray Cinema
Key West – Tropic Cinema
Maitland – Enzian Theatre
Tallahassee – Tallahassee Film Festival
Georgia
Athens – Ciné
Atlanta – Plaza Theater
Sandy Springs – LeFont Theaters
Hawaii
Honolulu – Kahala 8
Maui – Kaahumanu 6
Illinois
Champaign – The Art Theater
Chicago – Music Box Theater
Downer’s Grove – Tivoli at Downer’s Grove
Normal – Normal Theater
Peoria – Landmark Cinemas
Indiana
Fort Wayne – Cinema Center
Iowa
Des Moines – Fleur Cinema
Iowa City – FilmScene
Kansas
Lawrence – Liberty Hall
Kentucky
Lexington – Kentucky Theater
Louisville – Baxter 8
Louisiana
Baton Rouge – Cinemark Perkins Rowe
New Orleans – The Prytania Theatre
Maine
Waterville – Maine Film Festival
Maryland
Baltimore – The Senator
Hanover – Cinemark Egyptian 24
Massachusetts
Amherst – Amherst Cinema
Brookline – Coolidge Corner Theatre
Cape Cod – Cape Cinema
Danvers – Hollywood Hits
Gloucester – Cape Ann Community Cinema
Martha’s Vineyard – Martha’s Vineyard Film Center
Williamstown – Images Cinema
Michigan
Ann Arbor – Michigan Theater
City of Detroit Outdoor Screenings
Detroit – Cinema Detroit
Kalamazoo – Alamo Drafthouse
Manistee – The Vogue Theatre
Traverse City – State Theatre
Minnesota
Duluth – Zinema 2
Minneapolis – St. Anthony Main Theatre
Missouri
Columbia – Ragtag Cinema
Kansas City – Tivoli Cinemas
Springfield – Moxie Cinema
St. Louis – Chase Park Plaza
Montana
Missoula – The Roxy Theater
Nebraska
Kearney – The World Theatre
Lincoln – Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
Omaha – Film Streams
Wayne – The Majestic
Nevada
Sparks – Century Sparks
New Hampshire
Concord – Red River Theatre
Wilton – Town Hall Theatre
New Jersey
Asbury Park – The ShowRoom
Manville – Reading Cinemas Manville
New Mexico
Albuquerque – The Guild Cinema
New York
Amherst – Screening Room Cinemas
Binghamton – The Art Mission & Theater
New York City – Film Forum
Pelham – The Picture House
Pleasantville – Jacob Burns Film Center
Rochester – George Eastman House
Rosendale – Rosendale Theatre
West Hampton – Performing Arts Center
North Carolina
Asheville – Carolina Cinemas
Cornelius – Studio C Cinema
Raleigh – Raleigh Grande
Winston-Salem – A/perture Cinema
Ohio
Akron – The Nightlight Cinema
Cleveland – Cleveland Museum of Art
Columbus – Wexner Center for the Arts
Dayton – The Neon
Toledo – Franklin Park 16
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City – Museum of Art
Tulsa – Circle Cinema
Ontario
Kingston – The Screening Room
Toronto – Cineplex Cinemas Yonge & Dundas
Waterloo – Princess Cinemas
Oregon
Portland – Hollywood Theater
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem – ArtsQuest
Bryn Mawr – Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Erie – Film at the Erie Art Museum
Lewisburg – Campus Theatre
Milford – Black Bear Film Festival
Philadelphia – International House
Phoenixville – The Colonial Theatre
Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Quebec
Montreal – Cinema Cineplex Forum
Rhode Island
Newport – Jane Pickens
Providence – Cable Car Cinema
South Carolina
Charleston – Terrace Theater
South Dakota
Sioux Falls – Century East at Dawley Farm
Tennessee
Memphis – indieMemphis
Nashville – Belcourt Theatre
Texas
Austin – Alamo Drafthouse
Dallas – Angelika Film Center
El Paso – Plaza Classic Film Festival
Fort Worth – Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Houston – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
New Braunfels – Alamo Marketplace
Plano – Angelika Plano
San Antonio – Alamo Westlake
Utah
Salt Lake City – Tower Cinema
Virginia
Ashburn – Alamo One Loudoun
Fairfax – Angelika Mosaic
Norfolk – Naro Cinema
Williamsburg – Kimball Theatre
Winchester – Alamo Drafthouse
Washington
Bellevue – Lincoln Square Cinemas
Bellingham – Pickford Film Center
Camas – Liberty Theater
Langley – The Clyde Theatre
Olympia – Capitol Theater
Port Townsend – Rose Theatre
Seattle – Siff Cinema
Tacoma – Grand Cinema
Spokane – Bing Crosby Cinema>
Vancouver – Kiggins Theatre
Washington, D.C.
West End Cinema...
Dir. Richard Lester • U.K. 1964 • Black & White • 1.75:1 • 87 minutes
New 4K Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
New 5.1 Surround Mix Produced by Giles Martin
Opening in theaters on July 4, 2014 in almost 100 cities
(Scroll to the end of the article for the locations and theaters).
Courtesy of Janus Films
This is a Cheeky, Raucous, Irreverent film that will make most warm-blooded mammals laugh from the first scene, until the last! It is brilliant for a summer night out!
If you are a film or music fan, you most likely have already seen “A Hard Day’s Night” before, however, make a summertime date with the famous Fab Four, and see it again on the big screen, with the new restoration, at an art house cinema, and you really can’t go wrong.
It is necessary to give accolades to the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, because, “if it weren’t for Elvis, there would never have been any Beatles.” John Lennon had admitted, that from the moment he first learned about Elvis and saw all the attention that he was receiving, he wanted to be just like him.
So although, there is no denying that the Beatles changed music forever, it was really Elvis who was the King of their inspiration.
For those who have not seen “A Hard Day’s Night” before, the Beatles had already been a popular recording act, with several Top 20 hits in the U.K., when they arrived in NYC to perform on the Ed Sullivan show on February 7, 1964. A record breaking 73 million viewers tuned in, and the British invasion began.
One month later, across the pond, the film was in the works. The music lover and film producer, Walter Shenson, was brought on by United Artists. Shenson, who had previously worked with Director, Richard Lester, on “The Mouse on the Moon,” mentioned the gist of the project, and Richard jumped at the opportunity.
However, to receive the final green light, the film had to be true to the way the Beatles actually lived, and scriptwriter, Alun Owen, who wrote the television play, “No Trams to Lime Street,” which depicted Liverpool, was chosen.
The film begins with the song “A Hard Day’s Night” playing while the Fab Four are running through town trying to make it to the train station on time before their train departs. Once on board, they start a conversation with an older gentleman, who Paul comments, is his grandfather. John is cheekily trying to snort a Coke (Coca-Cola) bottle up his nose in the background, and a business man wants the train car his way demanding that the windows be closed shut. The laughs just continue from there on out, when the boys are flirting with girls, and the grandfather cunningly tells the young women that the boys are really prisoners. An acoustic version of “I Should Have Known Better” is being played on the train.
Film director, Richard Lester, “relied on improvisation rather than rehearsal, creating a freshness that was clear on-screen.” “Before we started, we knew that it would be unlikely that they could (a) learn, (b) remember, or (c) deliver with any accuracy a long speech. So the structure of the script had to be a series of one-liners,” Lester later stated, “This enabled me, in many of the scenes, to turn a camera on them and say a line to them, and they would say it back to me.”
The result, the bandmates play brilliant, clever, crafty, and smart-alicky versions of themselves.
Lester’s visual style mixed techniques from narrative films, documentary, the French New Wave, and live television to create something that felt, and was, spontaneous. “I have seen directors who write down a list of scenes for the day, and then sit back in a chair while everything is filmed according to plan. I can’t do that. I know that good films can be made this way, but it’s not for me. I have to react on the spot. There was very little structure that was planned except that we knew that we had to punctuate the film with a certain number of songs.”
Recorded at Emi Studios in Abbey Road, London, they cut “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “And I Love Her,” “I Should Have Known Better,” “Tell Me Why,” “If I Fell,” and “I’m Happy Just to Dance with You,” in only three days.
Must See!
Summer Screenings
Alabama
Montgomery – Capri Theatre
Alaska
Anchorage – Bear Tooth Cinema
Arizona
Tucson – The Loft Cinema
Arkansas
Little Rock – Colonel Glenn 18
British Columbia
Vancouver – Pacific Cinematheque
California
Bakersfield – Valley Plaza
Berkeley – Rialto Elmwood
Eureka – Eureka Theater
La Mesa – Grossmont Center
Los Angeles – Cinefamily
Malibu – The Malibu Film Society
Modesto – State Theater
Monterey – Osio Cinemas
Mountain View – Century Cinemas 16
Murrieta – Reading Cinemas Cal Oaks
Oxnard – Century RiverPark
Palm Springs – Camelot Theatres
Pasadena – Laemmle Playhouse 7
Sacramento – Tower Theater
San Diego – Gaslamp
San Francisco – Castro Theatre
San Luis Obispo – Palm Theatre
San Rafael – Smith Rafael Film Center
Santa Cruz – Del Mar Theatre
Colorado
Fort Collins – Lyric Cinema Cafe
Littleton – Alamo Drafthouse
Connecticut
Hartford – Cinestudio
Milford – Connecticut Post 14
Delaware
Wilmington – Theatre N
Florida
Coral Gables – Coral Gables Art Cinema
Jacksonville – Sun-Ray Cinema
Key West – Tropic Cinema
Maitland – Enzian Theatre
Tallahassee – Tallahassee Film Festival
Georgia
Athens – Ciné
Atlanta – Plaza Theater
Sandy Springs – LeFont Theaters
Hawaii
Honolulu – Kahala 8
Maui – Kaahumanu 6
Illinois
Champaign – The Art Theater
Chicago – Music Box Theater
Downer’s Grove – Tivoli at Downer’s Grove
Normal – Normal Theater
Peoria – Landmark Cinemas
Indiana
Fort Wayne – Cinema Center
Iowa
Des Moines – Fleur Cinema
Iowa City – FilmScene
Kansas
Lawrence – Liberty Hall
Kentucky
Lexington – Kentucky Theater
Louisville – Baxter 8
Louisiana
Baton Rouge – Cinemark Perkins Rowe
New Orleans – The Prytania Theatre
Maine
Waterville – Maine Film Festival
Maryland
Baltimore – The Senator
Hanover – Cinemark Egyptian 24
Massachusetts
Amherst – Amherst Cinema
Brookline – Coolidge Corner Theatre
Cape Cod – Cape Cinema
Danvers – Hollywood Hits
Gloucester – Cape Ann Community Cinema
Martha’s Vineyard – Martha’s Vineyard Film Center
Williamstown – Images Cinema
Michigan
Ann Arbor – Michigan Theater
City of Detroit Outdoor Screenings
Detroit – Cinema Detroit
Kalamazoo – Alamo Drafthouse
Manistee – The Vogue Theatre
Traverse City – State Theatre
Minnesota
Duluth – Zinema 2
Minneapolis – St. Anthony Main Theatre
Missouri
Columbia – Ragtag Cinema
Kansas City – Tivoli Cinemas
Springfield – Moxie Cinema
St. Louis – Chase Park Plaza
Montana
Missoula – The Roxy Theater
Nebraska
Kearney – The World Theatre
Lincoln – Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
Omaha – Film Streams
Wayne – The Majestic
Nevada
Sparks – Century Sparks
New Hampshire
Concord – Red River Theatre
Wilton – Town Hall Theatre
New Jersey
Asbury Park – The ShowRoom
Manville – Reading Cinemas Manville
New Mexico
Albuquerque – The Guild Cinema
New York
Amherst – Screening Room Cinemas
Binghamton – The Art Mission & Theater
New York City – Film Forum
Pelham – The Picture House
Pleasantville – Jacob Burns Film Center
Rochester – George Eastman House
Rosendale – Rosendale Theatre
West Hampton – Performing Arts Center
North Carolina
Asheville – Carolina Cinemas
Cornelius – Studio C Cinema
Raleigh – Raleigh Grande
Winston-Salem – A/perture Cinema
Ohio
Akron – The Nightlight Cinema
Cleveland – Cleveland Museum of Art
Columbus – Wexner Center for the Arts
Dayton – The Neon
Toledo – Franklin Park 16
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City – Museum of Art
Tulsa – Circle Cinema
Ontario
Kingston – The Screening Room
Toronto – Cineplex Cinemas Yonge & Dundas
Waterloo – Princess Cinemas
Oregon
Portland – Hollywood Theater
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem – ArtsQuest
Bryn Mawr – Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Erie – Film at the Erie Art Museum
Lewisburg – Campus Theatre
Milford – Black Bear Film Festival
Philadelphia – International House
Phoenixville – The Colonial Theatre
Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Quebec
Montreal – Cinema Cineplex Forum
Rhode Island
Newport – Jane Pickens
Providence – Cable Car Cinema
South Carolina
Charleston – Terrace Theater
South Dakota
Sioux Falls – Century East at Dawley Farm
Tennessee
Memphis – indieMemphis
Nashville – Belcourt Theatre
Texas
Austin – Alamo Drafthouse
Dallas – Angelika Film Center
El Paso – Plaza Classic Film Festival
Fort Worth – Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Houston – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
New Braunfels – Alamo Marketplace
Plano – Angelika Plano
San Antonio – Alamo Westlake
Utah
Salt Lake City – Tower Cinema
Virginia
Ashburn – Alamo One Loudoun
Fairfax – Angelika Mosaic
Norfolk – Naro Cinema
Williamsburg – Kimball Theatre
Winchester – Alamo Drafthouse
Washington
Bellevue – Lincoln Square Cinemas
Bellingham – Pickford Film Center
Camas – Liberty Theater
Langley – The Clyde Theatre
Olympia – Capitol Theater
Port Townsend – Rose Theatre
Seattle – Siff Cinema
Tacoma – Grand Cinema
Spokane – Bing Crosby Cinema>
Vancouver – Kiggins Theatre
Washington, D.C.
West End Cinema...
- 7/1/2014
- by Sharon Abella
- Sydney's Buzz
This week on Trailers from Hell, the articulate Brian Trenchard-Smith revisits Jack Arnold's 1959 comedy "The Mouse That Roared," starring Peter Sellers, in three roles, and Jean Seberg. The nearly bankrupt country of Grand Fenwick declares war on the United States in order to receive the financial aid that would be awarded the tiny country after their inevitable defeat. Unfortunately, they win. Peter Sellers stars (in three different roles) alongside Jean Seberg in this 1959 British cold-war farce written by Roger MacDougall (The Man In The White Suit) and directed by sojourning American Jack Arnold (Arnold went on to shoot an unsold TV pilot based on Mouse with Sid Caesar inheriting the roles played by Sellers). Grand Fenwick and its hapless citizenry returned in 1963's The Mouse On The Moon, directed by Richard Lester.
- 4/9/2014
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
The nearly bankrupt country of Grand Fenwick declares war on the United States in order to receive the financial aid that would be awarded the tiny country after their inevitable defeat. Unfortunately, they win. Peter Sellers stars (in three different roles) alongside Jean Seberg in this 1959 British cold-war farce written by Roger MacDougall (The Man In The White Suit) and directed by sojourning American Jack Arnold (Arnold went on to shoot an unsold TV pilot based on Mouse with Sid Caesar inheriting the roles played by Sellers). Grand Fenwick and its hapless citizenry returned in 1963′s The Mouse On The Moon, directed by Richard Lester.
The post The Mouse that Roared appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
The post The Mouse that Roared appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
- 4/9/2014
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: The Mouse On Wall Street by Leonard Wibberley (1969) (Not long ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps purchased a large box containing over 75 vintage science fiction, crime, and adventure paperbacks. He is reading all of them. This is book number 42.) When we last visited The Duchy Of Grand Fenwick in The Mouse That Roared, the tiny country had accidentally bested the world by declaring war on the U.S. in an attempt to enjoy the benefits traditionally bestowed by America on its bested enemies. In the process, Grand Fenwick inadvertently obtained a weapon of mass destruction, prompting a world-threatening stand-off that left everyone happier than before. Dry amusement ensued. Mouse’s prolific, Irish born, California-based author Leonard Wibberley returned to Grand Fenwick again in 1962 with the space-race send-up The Mouse On The Moon. That’s not in the...
- 7/24/2008
- avclub.com
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