The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is a 1966 American comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. It is based on the Nathaniel Benchley novel The OffIslanders, and was adapted for the screen by William Rose.

A Russian submarine called Octopus draws too close to the New England coast one morning when its captain Theodore Bikel wants to take a good look at America and runs aground on a sandbar near the fictional Gloucester Island, which, from other references in the movie, is located off the coast of Cape Ann or Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nineman landing party, headed by his zampolit Political Officer Lieutenant Yuri Rozanov Alan Arkin, to find a motor launch to help free the submarine from the bar. The men arrive at the house of Walt Whittaker Carl Reiner, a vacationing playwright from New York City. Whittaker is eager to get his wife Elspeth Eva Marie Saint and two children, obnoxious but precocious nine and halfyearold Pete Sheldon Collins and threeyearold Annie Cindy Putnam, off the island now that summer is over.Pete tells his dad that Russians with machine guns dressed in black uniforms are near the house, but Walt is met by the men who identify themselves as Norwegian fisherman. Walt buys this, and to teach Pete a lesson about judging others, asks if they are Russians with machine guns, which startles Rozanov into admitting that they are Russians and pulling a gun on Walt. Rozanov promises no harm to the Whittakers if they hand over their station wagon and provide information on the military and police forces of their island. Although Walt and Elspeth provides the keys, the sailors are perplexed as to why there are no military personnel on the island, and only a small police force. Before the Russians depart, Rozanov orders one of the sailors, Alexei Kolchin John Phillip Law, to prevent the Whittakers from fleeing. An attractive 18yearold neighbor, Alison Palmer Andrea Dromm, who works as a babysitter for Annie, expected to work that day and finds herself captive as well. ........

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