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  The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is a tiny fictional country created by Leonard Wibberley in a series of comedic novels beginning with The Mouse That Roared (1955), which was later made into a film.
The duchy, ruled by Grand Duchess Gloriana XII, is described as bordering Switzerland and France in the Alps.
In The Mouse on the Moon (1962), Grand Fenwick beats the U.S. and Soviet Union in a space race by using a new rocket fuel, the secret ingredient for which is a "premier grand cru" crop of Pinot Grand Fenwick.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Grand_Fenwick   (380 words)

  
 DVD Times - The Mouse That Roared
Grand Fenwick is a tiny duchy in mainland Europe, occupying some 15 ¾ square miles, somewhere near the French Alps, named after it's founder, the British baronet Sir Roger Fenwick who established it in 1430, finding that he quite fancied the neighbourhood and moved in.
Grand Fenwick has not moved forward from the years in which it was founded - the army still dress in chain mail, with their only weaponry being longbows.
Grand Fenwick was filmed in the UK and it appears to have been filmed in autumn given the colours of the landscape in the latter part of the film, after the army of Grand Fenwick returns with the Q Bomb.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5226   (1747 words)

  
  Grand Fenwick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is a tiny fictional country created by Leonard Wibberley in a series of comic novels, beginning with The Mouse That Roared (1955).
Its ruler is the Grand Duchess Gloriana XII.
Grand Fenwick is also a nation in an ongoing alternate-history project Ill Bethisad, albeit, not as crazy as the one in the stories.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Fenwick   (227 words)

  
 Grand Fenwick - Wikipedia Mirror
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is a tiny fictional country created by Leonard Wibberley in a series of comic novels, most popularly The Mouse That Roared (1955).
Grand Fenwick also appeared in film in 1959, when The Mouse That Roared was made into a movie starring Peter Sellers in three different roles (including the Duchess).
The real-life state of Liechtenstein is in a somewhat similar geographical situation to the fictional Grand Fenwick.
www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Grand_Fenwick   (242 words)

  
 Grand Fenwick - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is an imaginary country created by Leonard Wibberley in a series of comic novels, most popularly The Mouse That Roared (1955).
The Duchy is described as bordering Switzerland and France in the Alps, and it proudly retains a pre-industrial economy, dependent almost entirely on making Pinot Grand Fenwick wine.
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick also appeared in the movies, when The Mouse That Roared was made into a 1959 film starring Peter Sellers in three different roles (including the Duchess) and Jean Seberg as his love interest.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Grand_Fenwick   (224 words)

  
 Two successive men named John Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley [1570-1633]
On 13 Mar. 1624/5 Nicholas Midforth, servant of John Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley, was buried in Ponteland Parish.
In 1626 John Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley leased the manor house at Ellingham from the Earl of Annandale for seven years at the rent of L60 per annum.
On 15 Sept. 1633 John Fenwick of Brenkley was a godfather at the christening of Robert Gardner's son John at St. Andrew, Newcastle, Northumberland.
genforum.genealogy.com /fenwick/messages/529.html   (634 words)

  
 Moonport, CH7-5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In spite of the launchings at the Cape, the development of the Launch Operations Center, the agreements between the Air Force and NASA, the preliminaries for the construction of launch complex 39 and the industrial area on Merritt Island, not all was ultraserious.
The Mouse That Roared had centered around the attempt of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a mythical principality near the Swiss-French border, to wage an unsuccessful war against the United States in the hope that the United States would pour millions of dollars into the nation for rehabilitation.
It captured a professor at Columbia University, a native of Grand Fenwick, who had invented the "bomb to end all bombs." By threatening to use the bomb on all the major nations of the world, Grand Fenwick brought universal peace.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch7-5.html   (405 words)

  
 Grand Fenwick - IBWiki
Grand Fenwick was founded in 1370 by Englishman Roger Fenwick, who, as he later said, rather took a fancy to the place and moved in.
The Forest is a favourite of hikers and naturalists; which has led to a nascent ecotourism firm in the Duchy.
Grand Fenwick never invaded the NAL, contrary to the popular 1950s moving picture, Lion in Summer.
www.ib.frath.net /w/Grand_Fenwick   (127 words)

  
 Grand Fenwick - IBWiki
Grand Fenwick was founded in 1370 by Englishman Roger Fenwick, who, as he later said, rather took a fancy to the place and moved in.
The Forest is a favourite of hikers and naturalists; which has led to a nascent ecotourism firm in the Duchy.
Grand Fenwick never invaded the NAL, contrary to the popular 1950s moving picture, Lion in Summer.
ib.frath.net /w/Grand_Fenwick   (0 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Mouse, Caretakers
There they are: clean-shaven Americans, rumpled Russians and quaintly inefficient Englishmen, and the preposterous Duchy of Grand Fenwick which foils them all and finally saves the world.
Grand Fenwick is the same country that won World War III in The Mouse that Roared and more or less the same principality which Peter Ustinov presided over in Romanoff and Juliet.
Grand Fenwick's prime minister, delivering a fireside chat, destroys his country's television network by sticking his finger through the camera.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=247664   (0 words)

  
 DVD.net : The Mouse That Roared - DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Grand Fenwick is a small European Duchy situated high in the French Alps.
The ruler of Grand Fenwick, Grand Duchess Gloriana XII (Peter Sellers), agrees to the plan, and gives the order for the army to invade North America.
They travel back to Grand Fenwick where Tully gives the good news to the Duchess and the Prime Minister; it seems that they have actually won the war against the United States.
www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1899   (0 words)

  
 The Mouse on the Moon DVD - Michael Weise Productions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The result: the California winery stopped producing the cheap knock-off and Grand Fenwick kept a brilliant scientist, Professor Alfred Kokintz (David Kossoff, 1919-2005), that they captured in the U.S. With the success of "The Mouse that Roared", a sequel was produced 4 years later in 1963 and entitled "The Mouse on the Moon".
To counter suspicions in the U.S. and the Soviet Union that Grand Fenwick is indeed using their gifts for space exploration, Mountjoy invites representatives from each to visit the launching of the rocket.
Sellers is gone, but the farce remains, as the Grand Fenwickians inadvertently enter the Cold War space race, with the US, USSR and UK all falling over themselves to try and either control or subvert the tiny country's absurdly rickety space program.
www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B00004ZBVN   (0 words)

  
 BookPage Review: Turnaway
There are many such places in literature, creations like the Duchy of Grand Fenwick in Leonard Wibberley's The Mouse That Roared, a tiny English-speaking enclave that the author somehow managed to shoehorn into the middle of polyglot Europe.
At 20 square acres, it is tinier even than Grand Fenwick, and, in its ordinariness, less comical than that Ruritanian duchy.
Grand Fenwick was intended to entertain us and make us laugh.
www.bookpage.com /9605bp/fiction/turnaway.html   (703 words)

  
 DVD Answer Man | DVD Movies and Reviews | The Mouse That Roared
Fenwick believes this to be due to the fact that they have never really officially recognized the United States of America as an independent nation.
Regardless, Fenwick decides to declare war on the US, believing this to be a sound move politically and financially.
The troops of Fenwick are ready to depart, they consist of a total of 22 men armed with longbows and dressed in their traditional military attire, which resembles something from medieval times.
www.dvdanswerman.com /dvd/reviews/mfilm/mouseroar.html   (0 words)

  
 What other people say about The Mouse on the Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The result: the California winery stopped producing the cheap knock-off and Grand Fenwick kept a brilliant scientist, Professor Alfred Kokintz (David Kossoff, 1919-2005), that they captured in the U.S. With the success of "The Mouse that Roared", a sequel was produced 4 years later in 1963 and entitled "The Mouse on the Moon".
To counter suspicions in the U.S. and the Soviet Union that Grand Fenwick is indeed using their gifts for space exploration, Mountjoy invites representatives from each to visit the launching of the rocket.
Sellers is gone, but the farce remains, as the Grand Fenwickians inadvertently enter the Cold War space race, with the US, USSR and UK all falling over themselves to try and either control or subvert the tiny country's absurdly rickety space program.
www.softforall.com /store/Reviews-B00004ZBVN-1.html   (1093 words)

  
 Marianne M. Jennings
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a tiny nation "in a precipitous fold of the northern Alps" that is facing revenue shortfalls, decides that the best way to solve its fiscal problems is to invade the United States.
So, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick sends its pitiful band of brothers of an army down Broadway in New York and captures a bomb.
The United States apologizes to Grand Fenwick and the world for developing the bomb and creating a temptation that invited invasion.
www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/jennings051204.asp   (898 words)

  
 »»That Guy Movie Reviews««
The plan, proposed by Grand Fenwick's prime minister (played by Peter Sellers), is approved by the monarch (also played by Peter Sellers), who dispatches an invasion force under the command of Grand Fenwick's hapless Field Marshal (also played by Peter Sellers).
To save its failed economy, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick declares war on the United States with the intention of losing and receiving millions of dollars in aid.
Set in the fictional country of Grand Fenwick, the story tells of their plans to invade America, lose the war, and then reap the benefits as the USA tries to rebuild their country just like after WWII with the Marshall Plan.
www.family-movie-review.com /Games/That_Guy   (898 words)

  
 Poster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Grand Fenwick es un país pequeño y con serios problemas en sus instalaciones sanitarias.
Por eso, los poderes de Grand Fenwick traman un plan: piden asistencia a EEUU para un presunto programa de conquista del espacio.
Ahora en Grand Fenwick tienen dinero suficiente para solucionar sus problemas domésticos, pero tienen que mostrar al mundo algunos resultados de su inexistente programa espacial.
www.europaeuropa.tv /moviedata.asp?ID=sIAiHw9K8bj2kf   (127 words)

  
 INSIDE JoongAng Daily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Grand Fenwick is a tiny country with a population of 4,000 in the Northern Alps.
While the country's economy used to be self-sufficient from exporting Pinot Grand Fenwick wine, it is facing an economic crisis due to population growth.
The trick is that the Grand Fenwick forces will be defeated soon and the country can receive aid from the United States.
joongangdaily.joins.com /200610/19/200610192206264509900090109012.html   (0 words)

  
 The Mouse That Roared (1959)
The poor Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the smallest country in the world, declares war on the U.S. in the hope of losing and collecting foreign aid.
As the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the tiniest country in Europe, he declares war on the United States at the urging of the prime minister (Sellers, again), so that the country can stave off bankruptcy.
It seems that Fenwick's only export, Pinot Grand Fenwick, was run out of the market by U.S. imitators, and the prime minister thinks the best thing to do is declare war, lose, and wait for the reparations cash to flow in.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=969&PID=10110054&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=18   (591 words)

  
 News from DEA, Domestic Field Divisions, Miami News Releases, 12/14/06
Fenwick was arrested by federal and state agents in Panama City.
On the remaining counts, Durfey faces a maximum total term of imprisonment of 1,960 years imprisonment on the drug counts and total fines exceeding $82 million.
Fenwick faces a total maximum term of 120 years’ imprisonment, and $2.5 million in fines.
www.usdoj.gov /dea/pubs/states/newsrel/mia121406.html   (420 words)

  
 Cinescape - Home - Editorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The book opens in the country of Grand Fenwick, a sovereign nation only five miles wide and three miles long, which rests on the border of France.
Obviously, in a war with the United States, Grand Fenwick, which only has an army of 50 longbowmen, would lose instantly…which means that the United States would be forced to pay war reparations.
The Grand Fenwick soldiers take the professor, and the bomb, captive, and return to their country.
www.cinescape.com /0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Books&action=page&type_id=270289&cat_id=0&obj_id=37541   (0 words)

  
 Fenwick High School
Sixteen Fenwick student athletes have signed letters of intent with college and universities to pursue their studies and athletic achievement in the fall of 2007.
At Fenwick, where 100% of students take the A.C.T. test in the spring of their junior year, the preliminary score has climbed steadily since 1992, when the average was 23.
Fenwick was founded in 1929 by the Dominican Order of Preachers and is the only high school in the U.S. operated by Dominican Friars.
www.fenwickfriars.com /general/currentnews.php   (9848 words)

  
 THE MOUSE THAT ROARED, by Leonard Wibberley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Grand Fenwick is furious about sneaky U.S. business practices, so they send a ramshackle army to New York City, march up Broadway, and accidentally capture the world's newest and most destructive bomb.
As global superpowers scramble to make sense of this sudden reversal, Grand Fenwick is forced to confront its new status—as the most powerful nation on the planet.
A whimsical cross between Kubrick and Kafka, The Mouse That Roared is a quirky classic of world literature, a poignant tale of political morality, and a hilarious, ultimately triumphant portrait of international relations from the perspective of the little guy.
www.4w8w.com /bookwibberley1.html   (0 words)

  
 The Head Heeb: Can anyone say Pinot Grand Enwick?
Grand Fenwick (read the books if you haven’t — they are far better than the movies, which is saying quite a lot) is a stand in for the Low Lands.
Grand Fenwick [...] is a stand in for the Low Lands.
About Grand Fenwick, I’d argue that Gloriana XII supports my comparison, though there certainly is more than one country in Grand Fenwick’s creation: the Alpine location supports your Lichtenstein contention, and there’s a lot of Little England thrown in the mix along with the very non-English focus on viniculture.
headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/028580.html   (0 words)

  
 Soldiers For The Truth :: View topic - Upgrading Humvee armor, again.
The story is about a miniscule European state, the duchy of Grand Fenwick, which sees a way out of bankruptcy by declaring war on the US (to be followed by a quick surrender, and rehabilitative aid from the generous victor).
The first scene of Grand Fenwick's part-time commander, and full-time gamekeeper, has him caught in a trap and unable to scare away the fox that just sits there looking at him.
The one and only Sellers does a great job in all departments, the state of Grand Fenwick is expertly brought to the screen with a unique sense of humor, and this MOUSE still roars plenty loud even after forty some years.
www.sftt.org /phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=119868   (797 words)

  
 Funny DVD: The Mouse on the Moon - $12.99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The result: the California winery stopped producing the cheap кnоск-оff and Grand Fenwick kept a brilliаnt scientist, Professor Alfred Kokintz (David Kossoff, 1919-2005), that they captured in the U.S. With the success of "The Mouse that Roared", a sequel was produced 4 years later in 1963 and entitled "The Mouse on the Moon".
One of my favorite comedies from back whеn I was a kid (and they usеd to show old films like this on broadcast ТV...) One of those rаrе instances in which a sequel to a cult film is still fun enough to make it on its оwn merits, dеsрitе losing the original lead actor.
Sellers is gone, but the farce remains, as the Grand Fenwickians inadvertently enter the Cold War space race, with the US, USSR аnd UK all falling over themselves to try and either control or subvеrt the tiny country's absurdly rickety space program.
www.funnydvdmovies.com /tvr4230303030345a42564e.html   (999 words)

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