Actual cheeriness

I stumbled across a Peter Sellers film I saw and enjoyed when I was a kid, The Mouse That Roared. A tiny fictional European state, The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, in need of money, decides to declare war on America, and lose. That way, as a vanquished American foe, they'll be inundated with aid, like Germany and Japan, and turn their poverty into prosperity.

Things don't go according to plan. But the premise itself is humorous enough. And Sellers, of course, plays several roles, including the Grande Duchess.

BTW, the depiction of New York City fifty years ago is of a lost world.

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