Mouse Hunt plots loyalty test with a crafty mouse rival
The Smuntz brothers Ernie and Lars inherit a string factory and a quirky house from their father, hoping for quick wealth. A wily mouse, backed by sixty trained mice, outsmarts their schemes as they clash over sharing the family relics and property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smuntz
Pop
America
Ernie
Lars
Capra’s Williams Legacy In James Stewart Cinema
Capra’s son recalls how the director’s films shaped American memory from Capra’s idealized Bedford Falls in It’s a Wonderful Life to the political clarity of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The elder Capra, proud yet ambivalent, faced postwar fear, McCarthyism and a shifting America while sustaining faith in individual virtue through Stewart’s enduring screen presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christass
George Bailey
Bedford Falls
Santa Claus
34Th Street
Mr. Smith
Washington
Capra
James Stewart
Capra Jr
Hhe
NBC
United States
Sicily
Los Angeles
McBride
Joseph McCarthy
America
Vietnam
Robert Yates
London Observer Service
Mice Trained for Mouse Hunt Surprise Cast
The film crew recruited 60 mice from an online search after Gore and director Gore Verbinski chose two from a breeder. Narr described brutal eight hour daily training for six months while mice were assigned roles as runners climbers jumpers and sitters with a De Niro star mouse weighing fifty pounds in an acting trailer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone Narr
Verbinski
Narr
Gore
Also Mentioned on This Page
P.O
New Castle
Namy
Nathan
Orson Welles
Lane
Gore Verbinski
Charles Addams
Smuntz Brothers
Lee Evans
de Niro
Pede
Rte
Canfield
Colormibderan
Liv
Tn Ware
Haus
THE
Hern Brothers
Pittsburgh
Whiskey High
S. Mill St
Wilmington
Lawrence CO
Vo-Tech
Shangri-La
Lawrence County
Vo-Tech Adult Education
Star Wars
NEW Castle News