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| ACTORS: | Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Norman Jewison |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 25 May, 1966 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616880185 |
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Customer Reviews of The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Laughs are coming, the Laughs are coming ! I have watched this movie more times than I can count, and each time I find myself laughing until I cry. When a Russian submarine accidentally runs aground of a sleepy little island summer town, the people literally go nuts. Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Brian Keith and Jonathan Winters are just a few of the many fine actors who make this movie a laugh a minute. When the bumbling Russians tie up and gag the elderly Post-Mistress "Muriel Everitt" and sit her on top of the refrigerator - you will laugh until your sides ache when her nearly deaf husband eats breakfast 2 feet from her and never realizes she's behind him struggling to get his attention. The sight of Carl Reiner tied up face to face with the hefty town operator and their efforts to hop down a steep flight of steps, (ending, naturally, with the heavy woman falling on top of Carl Reiner and passing out ) is more than I could take with out laughing until I cried. Please rent this movie and have the entire family watch it with you. It's in the genre of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and you will enjoy every moment !
still very good, but could be better
I first saw this film when it opened in 1966, and last night i saw it again, a video version from amazon. it's still just as funny as it was the first time. I was lucky enough to live in the no. california town where they filmed it in 1965, and there's a certain charm in returning to my boyhood. Alan arkin steals the film in my opinion. His russian submarine lieutenant is just wonderful, although the rest of the cast (reiner, saint, winters, and the lot) are all wonderful, too.
The new video version (i bought mine in dec 2000) suffers from two problems, however. 1) When are vdeo makers going to start letterboxing the films? There are several scenes in this film that are ruined, because the non-letterboxed version isn't wide enough for what norman jewison wanted us to see. Shame on you video makers. Is letterboxing that hard? 2) Some idiot apparently decided that subtitles were a good thing. They aren't. The original version of this film had no subtitles, and for a darn good reason: Their lack puts us in the same boat as the islanders, not knowing exactly who these strangers are and what they're saying. And the subtitles absolutely ruin the pierside scene where arkin acts as translator for the police chief (brian keith) and the submarine captain (theodore bikel).
It's still screamingly funny, but if you letterbox it and get rid of the subtitles, you'll have a five star film, even if that pooh-head leonard maltin disagrees.
Excellent Anti-War Comedy
A Russian submarine runs aground on an island near New England. The Russian skipper (Theodore Bikel) sends a landing party ashore to find a boat to tow the stranded sub. The landing party is headed by Alan Arkin. The winter residents of the island have a police department of sorts which is headed by Brian Keith and his assistant is Jonathan Winters. Paul Ford heads a small band of mostly unarmed volunteers. Carl Reiner and Eva Marie Saint are taken captive by the hapless Russians. In response to the "invasion" Ford rallies his group with slogans which remind us of the battles of Concord and Lexington and also Bunker Hill. Two old ladies ride through the village on a motorcycle doing their own imitation of Paul Revere.
The movie is an anti-war comedy made after the Cuban Missile Crisis and during the period of escalation in Vietnam. It is also a time when private bomb shelters are being built by Americans.
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Actor (Alan Arkin), Adapted Screenplay and Editing. The main competition for Oscars in 1966 came from A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS.
Norman Jewison also directed FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.