83 minutes
7/17/1959
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 (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
Peter Sellers
as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
Jean Seberg
as Helen Kokintz
William Hartnell
as Will Buckley
David Kossoff
as Professor Alfred Kokintz
Leo McKern
as Benter
MacDonald Parke
as General Snippet
Austin Willis
as United States Secretary of Defense
Timothy Bateson
as Roger
Monte Landis
as Cobbley
Alan Gifford
as Air Raid Warden
Colin Gordon
as BBC Announcer
Harold Kasket
as Pedro
Guy Deghy
as Soviet Ambassador (uncredited)
Eve Eden
as Spectator (uncredited)
Bill Edwards
as Army Captain (uncredited)
Mabel Etherington
as Ada - Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
Muriel Greenslade
as Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
Fred Haggerty
as Fenwickian (uncredited)
Juba Kennerley
as Maybury (uncredited)
George Margo
as O'Hara (uncredited)
Lionel Murton
as American General at the Pentagon (uncredited)
Bill Nagy
as U.S. Policeman (uncredited)
Robert O'Neil
as Reporter (uncredited)
Pat Ryan
as American General (uncredited)
Stuart Saunders
as Sergeant (uncredited)
Fred Stroud
as Fenwickian (uncredited)
John Tatum
as American Admiral (uncredited)
Mavis Villiers
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Fred Wood
as Bird Seller (uncredited)