Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British probably could have made an excellent film out of The Mouse That Roared; Columbia pictures and Director Jack Arnold have made a good one. A frothy comedy about a diminutive principality in Alpine Europe--the Duchy of Grand Fenwick--the film is good satire on the American military, world diplomacy, and the arms race...
Based on a novel by Leonard Wibberly (which I haven't read but have been informed is "deeper" than the movie) The Mouse tells the story of how Grand Fenwick--its economy threatened by an imitation American wine that drives its own product off the U.S. market--plots to make war on America, lose, and, as is customary with vanquished U.S. foes, be economically rehabilitated. The triad of hereditary rulers who run Grand Fenwick--creaking and Victorianesque Grand Duchess Glorianna, imperious Prime Minister Montjoy, and meek but good Tully Bascomb, a combination game warden and defense minister--are all played...
...Added meetings with Tunisia's President Bourguiba, the West's warmest friend in North Africa, and Spain's Generalissimo Franco to his tightly scheduled, 20,000-mile grand tour (TIME, Nov. 16); the President will invite Bourguiba aboard the cruiser Des Moines for an afternoon's conversation in the Bay of Tunis, will visit Franco on an overnight stop in Madrid while flying home from Paris...
...GRAND MANEUVERS OF THE REVEREND ON VIA VENETO, chortled the next day's picture caption, while the subject of the story, privately reprimanded by the Vatican, prepared to return to the relative freedom and anonymity of New York. "Italy has nothing more for me," said Gussoni. "It's better to lose your health than your reputation...
Shown in France, the picture delighted the public, astonished the critics, won the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes. Part of its appeal, no doubt, derives from the timeless charm of the old legend itself, which Scenarist Jacques Viot has adapted simply and gracefully. Orpheus is a Rio streetcar conductor; Eurydice is a village girl who comes to the big city to visit her cousin and to escape from a sinister stranger who wants to kill her. They fall in love and go down to the city together to celebrate the carnival in the streets. There her enemy, who is Death...