Fresh
Arkin, in his film bow, is absolutely outstanding as the courtly Russian who kisses a lady's hand even as he draws a gun.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
IT'S A PLOT! ...to make the world die laughing!!
1966 · 2h 6m · Approved
Comedy, War
Directed by
Norman Jewison
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Norman Jewison Director
- Carl Reiner as Walt Whittaker
- Eva Marie Saint as Elspeth Whittaker
- Alan Arkin as Lt. Rozanov
- Brian Keith as Police Chief Link Mattocks
- Paul Ford as Fendall Hawkins
- Theodore Bikel as The Russian captain
- Jonathan Winters as Norman Jones
- Tessie O'Shea as Alice Foss (telephone operator)
- John Phillip Law as Alexei Kolchin
- Ben Blue Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Rotten
More memorable for its title than for anything else.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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- Runtime
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IMDb
8.3
Rotten Tomatoes
98%
Metacritic
97
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