THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!
1966,
Park Circus/MGM,
126 min,
USA,
Dir: Norman Jewison
Director Norman Jewison’s warm-hearted satire tracks the crew of a Russian sub (headed by a delightful Alan Arkin, Theodore Bikel and John Philip Law) who inadvertently scuttle their craft on the beach of Gloucester Island, sending the local inhabitants - all of them possessed of Cold War paranoia - into a tizzy. Carl Reiner and Eva Marie Saint head a phenomenal cast as the Whitakers, a couple who interact with the accidental invaders, with Brian Keith as the police chief, Jonathan Winters as his clueless deputy and Paul Ford as a pompous, retired military officer.