The little ones also want to go up

Movie
German title	The little ones also want to go up
Original title	The Mouse on the Moon
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1963
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Richard Lester
script	Michael Pertwee
production	Walter Shenson
music	Ron Grainer
camera	Wilkie Cooper
cut	Bill Lenny
occupation
Margaret Rutherford (German speaker: Agnes Windeck ): Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII. Ron Moody ( Curt Ackermann ): Prime Minister Mountjoy Terry-Thomas : Secret Agent Maurice Spender 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 staff Reinhard Glemnitz : Narrator Allan Cuthbertson : Delegate Tom Aldredge : Wendover

Even the little ones want to go up (original title: The Mouse on the Moon ) is a British feature film from 1963. Directed by Richard Lester . The film is the sequel to The Mouse that Roared from 1959 and, like this one, is based on a novel by Leonard Wibberley , in this case The Mouse on the Moon . The German premiere took place on September 27, 1963.

action

The small European duchy of Grand Fenwick is on the verge of bankruptcy. The country's only export item, the wine grown there, suddenly develops explosive properties.

Prime Minister Rupert von Mountjoy, however, has a salvation idea: He is asking the United States for half a million dollars for help. The money is said to be used to finance the construction of a moon rocket, but Mountjoy actually wants to use it to finance a hot water system for the palace. The Russians do not want to be inferior to the Americans and give Grand Fenwick a discarded missile.

The Prime Minister invites politicians from all over the world to launch the rocket, which is supposed to end in a planned fiasco .

Those present are speechless when the said rocket actually starts, contrary to expectations, powered by a fuel that Professor Kokintz developed from the explosive wine.

Reviews

• “Apart from a few striking punch lines, the whole thing seems like an untalented attempt at cabaret. It was less the fabric than the style that spoiled the fun. The dubbing did the rest to coarsen the gags. ”- Filmdienst

• "Lester (...) stages this as wonderfully uninhibited nonsense regardless of the loss of credibility." (Rating: above average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in the lexicon "Films on TV"

• "Weaker sequel to 'The Mouse That Roared' (1959). (...) The comedy lacks the wit and accuracy of its predecessor for a long time." - Lexicon of international film

• "(...) this straggler does not achieve the liveliness of Jack Arnold's comedy, even if Margaret" Miss Marple "Rutherford as Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII is quite able to convince." - prism

literature

• Leonard Wibberley : The Mouse on the Moon . Morrow, New York 1962, 191 pp. (No German translation yet)

Web links

• The Mouse on the Moon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Even the little ones want to go up in the online film database
• The Mouse on the Moon at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lexicon of International Films . CD-ROM edition. Systhema, Munich 1997
2. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" . Extended new edition. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 55
3. ↑ Online film database, even the little ones want to go up at prisma-online.de; Retrieved November 1, 2008