Wednesday, March 30, 2022

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (1966)
























Directed by: Norman Jewison
Based on the novel "The Off-Islanders" by: Nathaniel Benchley
Screenplay by: William Rose
Starring: Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel, Jonathan Winters, John Phillip Law, Tessie O'Shea, Paul Ford, Ben Blue, Andrea Dromm

126 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
In the Cold War, when the captain of a Russian submarine comes too close to the Gloucester Island in Massachusetts to give a look at America, the submarine gets stranded. A nine-man team commanded by Lieutenant Rozanov goes onshore to search a motorboat to release the submarine and arrives at the summer house of the New Yorker writer Walt Whittaker that is spending the weekend with his family in Gloucester. When he realizes that they are Russians, he believes that it is an invasion. Soon the information leaks, leading hysteria and paranoia along the inhabitants of the small village.

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