“The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming”: Film Review Podcast

Posted: September 2nd, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews Podcast | No Comments »

It was obvious from this film debut in 1966 that Alan Arkin would become an icon of screen comedy.

Here he plays a member of the crew of a Russian spy submarine, that gets stranded on a sandbar off the coast of a Massachusetts island. He leads a landing party to commandeer a boat to pull them free.

The citizenry panics. It was, after all, the middle of the Cold War, when the movie was set.

The Oscar-nominated film is silly and funny and entertaining. Arkin is brilliant. (He was also nominated for a statuette.) So, too Jonathan Winters, Brian Keith, character actors Ben Blue and Tessie O’Shea.

But, most especially, Paul Ford, as the bombastic old military guy, who is ready to start World War III.

I came across Norman Jewison’s flick at Amazon Prime, when I was looking for something mindless and funny. I hadn’t seen it since its release back when.

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