The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)

IT'S A PLOT! ...to make the world die laughing!!

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.

Date of release
1966-05-25
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (141)
Runtime
2h 6m
Genres
Comedy, War
Director
Norman Jewison

Casting

  • Carl Reiner — Walt Whittaker
  • Eva Marie Saint — Elspeth Whittaker
  • Alan Arkin — Lt. Rozanov
  • Brian Keith — Police Chief Link Mattocks
  • Paul Ford — Fendall Hawkins
  • Theodore Bikel — The Russian captain
  • Jonathan Winters — Norman Jones
  • Tessie O'Shea — Alice Foss
  • John Phillip Law — Alexei Kolchin
  • Ben Blue — Luther Grilk
  • Guy Raymond — Lester Tilly
  • Andrea Dromm — Alison Palmer

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