Columbia Pictures
Directed by Jack Arnold
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Columbia TriStar)
The tiny fictional country of Grand Fenwick declares war on the USA in order to receive economic aid after they inevitably lose. They send a group of 20 men in medieval armor with nothing more than bows and arrows to New York City for the invasion, led by an incompetent Peter Sellers. It turns out the whole city is underground for a test of the new "Q-bomb", a million times more powerful than the H-bomb. Sellers and crew stumble upon the physicist who is secretly testing the bomb in his lab and steal it. Having effectively won the war, they head home with physicist and some high ranking brass in tow. However, it does not solve their economic problems and they negotiate a truce. A sly critique of the nuclear arms race, but the humor can be very English in that Monty Python kind of way. Peter Sellers has multiple roles in a tour-de-force performance.
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