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They're taking over the country in an invasion of laughs!
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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.
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Directed by: Jack Arnold, John Wilcox, Philip Shipway
Produced by: Walter Shenson, Jon Penington
Composed by: Edwin Astley
Cast

Peter Sellers
Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / 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
Air Raid Warden
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