THE MOUSE THAT ROARED
TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET
Peter Sellers (yes, him again) stars – playing several roles, as he would do later in Dr. Strangelove – in this 1959 comedy, which predates and politicizes the general concept of Mel Brooks’ The Producers. In that Sixties classic, Broadway producers schemed to mount an intentional flop so they could profit from all the unrecoverable losses. In The Mouse That Roared, a tiny country declares war on the United States, so it can lose quickly and benefit from postwar reparations. But as would happen later in The Producers, things don’t exactly go according to plan.