The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966) Movie Overview

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming is a 1966 American comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley juvenile novel, The Off-Islanders, it was adapted for the screen by William Rose. The movie tells the Cold War story of the comedic chaos which ensues when the Soviet submarine, Спрут (pronounced Sprut – Octopus), accidentally runs aground near a small New England island town. A Russian submarine draws too close to the New England coast when its captain wants to take a good look at America and runs aground on a sandbar near an island off Cape Cod. Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nine-man landing party headed by his second-in-command Lieutenant Rozanov (Alan Arkin) to find a motor launch to help free the sub from the bar. The men arrive at the house of Walt Whittaker (Carl Reiner), a vacationing playwright from New York City. Whittaker is eager to get his wife Elspeth (Eva Marie Saint) and two children, obnoxious six-year-old Pete (Sheldon Collins) and three-year-old Annie (Cindy Putnam), off the island now that summer is over. Failing to convince the Whittakers that his group are Norwegians (all of the… Source

• The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming Movie Details
• Director: Norman Jewison
• Tagline: It's A Plot!… to make the world die laughing!!
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 126 min
• Genre: Comedy , War

• Cast Overview
• Carl Reiner as Walt Whittaker
• Eva Marie Saint as Elspeth Whittaker
• Alan Arkin as Lt. Rozanov
• Brian Keith as Police Chief Link Mattocks
• Jonathan Winters as Norman Jones
• Paul Ford as Fendall Hawkins

The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966): A Russian sub is grounded on a sandbar off the coast of a small New England town, and after initial hostility, the townsfolk join together with the Russian sailors to set the vessel free in a show of human solidarity. Source

The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming Movie Review from New York Times

Just because The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming was vastly overrated by contemporary critics does not make it any less amusing. The story gets under way when a Soviet submarine accidently gets lodged in a sandbar on the coast of a New England town. In his feature film debut, Alan Arkin plays the sub’s second-in-command, who is ordered… Source

The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming Movie Details from Imdb

When a Soviet submarine captain comes up for a look at America (off the coast of a small island in Massachusetts) he runs aground. He sends his two English speaking crewmen to procure a boat with enough power to pull them off. The 2 English speakers, along with 7 other Russian sailors, don’t exactly blend in and the town is convinced that they are… Source

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