The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! Movie Review
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! Review
"The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" Overview
Rating: NR
1966
Cast and Crew
Director : Norman JewisonProducer : Norman Jewison
Screenwiter : William Rose
Starring : Carl Reiner,Eva Marie Saint,Alan Arkin,Brian Keith,Jonathan Winters,Paul Ford
Now terribly quaint (just look at the title!) and not nearly as funny as film
historians would lead you to believe, The Russians Are Coming! is nonetheless
quite daring for its day. In 1966, the Cold War was close to its peak, and
Norman Jewison took a chance on a little book called Off Islanders, abbout a
Russian sub that runs aground on a New England island. Hilarity (er...) ensues,
a la Catch-22, with plenty of military mismanagement (on both sides of the
fence) and romances in halting English. Alas, I just don't see this one: Alan
Arkin makes for one awfully oddball Russian.
Aka The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.
|
Review by Christopher Null 
|
