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New Castle News

Location

New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1997

Page

13

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.

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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.

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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.

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