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| | The Mouse That Roared (1959): Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, Leo McKern - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | Although made five years earlier at the same Shepperton Studios in England, The Mouse That Roared has many ingredients identical to Strangelove's -- Sellers in three corresponding roles (the bumbling queen, the conscientious soldier, the conniving politician), a nuclear threat, war, and political manipulation. |
 | | But The Mouse That Roared is also evocative of a time when, even though the world was one itchy trigger finger away from annihilation, media resisted the kind of mean-spirited cynicism that serves as lifeblood for today's reality TV. |
 | | Which is not to say everything was hunky-dory; five years later, Kubrick's version of the same consensual frenzy made clear that malice and ignorance were infinitely dangerous. |
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