The Mouse on the Moon

• Margaret Rutherford ( German Speaker: Agnes Windeck ): Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII.
• Ron Moody ( Curt Ackermann ): Prime Minister Mountjoy
• Terry -Thomas: Secret Agent Maurice donor
• Bernard Cribbins (Hans Jürgen Diedrich ): Vincent Mountjoy
• David Kossoff (Alfred Balthoff ): Professor Alfred Kokintz
• June Ritchie ( Heidi Treutler ): Cynthia
• John Phillips ( Wolf Ackva ): Delegate Bracewell
• John Le Mesurier: British delegate
• Eric Barker: MI5 employee
• Reinhard Glemnitz: narrator
• Allan Cuthbertson: Delegate

Even children want to move up (AKA The Mouse on the Moon ) is a British feature film from the year 1963. Directed by Richard Lester. The film is the sequel to The Mouse That Roared in 1959 and how this is based on a novel by Leonard Wibberley, in this case, The Mouse on the Moon. The German premiere was on 27 September 1963.

Action

The small European duchy Grand Fenwick is close to bankruptcy. The only export item of the country, the wine grown there, suddenly developed explosive properties.

However, the Prime Minister Rupert Mountjoy has the bright idea that he asks of the U.S. $ one million assistance. Supposedly to be funded with the money to build a moon rocket, in reality Mountjoy wants to fund only a hot water system for the palace. The Russians want the Americans are not inferior and give Grand Fenwick a discarded rocket.

The Prime Minister invites politicians from around the world launch of the rocket, which is to end with a planned fiasco.

Those present there speechless, as said missile unexpectedly actually starts, has powered by a fuel, the professor Kokintz from the explosive wine develops.

Reviews

• " Apart from a few striking punch lines affects the whole as an untalented cabaret attempt. Less the substance than the style spoiled the fun. The synchronization did the rest, the gags to continue to coarsen. "- Filmdienst

• " Lester (...) staged as the wonderfully unselfconscious messing about without regard to loss of credibility. " ( Rating: above average) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV ", 1999

• " Weaker sequel to" The Mouse That Roared "(1959). (...) The Comedy missing long stretches of wit and accuracy of its predecessor. " - Lexicon of international film, 1997

• "(...) The liveliness of Jack Arnold's comedy reached this straggler is not, even if Margaret " Miss Marple " Rutherford as Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII. Quite able to convince. " - Prism online movie database