This older movie on DVD is one of a kind. Even though it was produced in the mid 1960s, it is a perfect movie for people now with all of the Russia Hysteria that exists in the USA. It shows that we are all human beings with normal emotions no matter where we come from. I encourage anyone to order this film and watch every minute of it ... especially the ending. One should also watch the special feature enclosed on the DVD called, "The Russians are Coming to Hollywood" ... not find-able anywhere else than on this DVD. It is an interview with the producer and a time piece of sorts and a short history of the "cold war" in the 60s. ... And like that.
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Much as I admire Norman Jewison's body of work, this movie did not hold up. The price was worth it from a nostalgia point of view and not sorry I purchased it, but OMG, it was awful!
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I love this movie and hadn't seen it for a long time. I watched it on TV recently and had to add it to my video collection. Against orders, a Soviet submarine captain comes up for a look at America (off the coast of a small island in New England) and runs aground. He sends his two English speaking crewmen (played by Alan Arkin and John Philip Law) to procure a boat with enough power to pull them off. The 2 English speakers, along with 7 other Russian sailors, don't exactly blend in and the town is convinced that they are being invaded. Police Chief Link Mattocks (Brian Keith): "I thought all the nuts went home on Labor Day." The all-star cast also includes Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters, Theodore Bikel and Paul Ford. I highly recommend The Russians Are Coming for the whole family. It's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.Read full review
An excellent film for us Baby boomers. And if you remember the cold war, and the big fear of the Russians. This film has an all-star cast: Carl Reiner, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Johnathan Winters. It all starts when a russian submarine runs aground on a sand bar. A small party of russians leave the submarine to get a motorboat to pull the submarine loose. But in the course of this, the locals are all involved. It is every man for himself. Lets defend the island. Close to the end of the film, there is a confrontation with the submarine commander and the locals. World War III is about to break loose. Nothing brings people together, like a tradgedy. And this film has that too. A small tragedy brings the russians and americans together to unite them. In the meantime you have the US Military getting involved. By the end of the film, you remember one thing. The laughter the tears, and your own family all sitting around once again to watch a family oriented film, that brings you close again.Read full review
I saw this movie years ago and now that I teach high school history I thought it would be a great opener to teaching about the Cold War, irrational fear, mob hysteria, and how the media can add to stereotyping. My students loved it! I teach in a very diverse high school and students from Eastern Europe wanted to borrow it to show their families. I loaned it out when we were done with the unit and all responses came back positive. Some students said their parents from Ukraine or Russia, etc., had the same fears about the USA as the USA had about their countries. This opened communication between the students and their parents and grandparents. Since viewing the film we've had many discussions about stereotyping, racism, prejudice and how every group of people in the United States has either had family members, or themselves experience these from the Irish to the SE Asians and more.Read full review
This film hit the theaters 1966, and generally reflected the paranoia of a possible Russian invasion at the time. It is a well done piece with an all star cast. Alan Arkin shows his exceptional talant as an actor. With Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters, John Phillip Law, and Carl Reiner, it is well deserving for a place in one's collection. For a collector and historian of vintage cars and collectibles, the movie has some of these pieces, like the early crank telephones and switch board, boats, planes, and cars. Even an early Harley Davison with sidecar. The film is a must see and the comedy still carries to this day. Credit goes to Norman Jewison for this excellent work !
Great scenery, great characters, great visuals and a lot of fun for the over 50 crowd: a lot of familiar faces and skits from the 50s and 60s, faces who are now long gone. It's a pleasant visit to watch them work again. The movie is a Mirisch production, always entertaining, and is a parable about the 60s and the Cold War. The Cold War is a concept lost to those who are under 50 so some of the setups would be lost to younger viewers. But, a Soviet submarine runs aground off a New England island. Putting a group of sailors ashore to get help to pull the sub free turns into a chaotic mess as each new island authority figure who gets involved keeps adding to the panic with little information and lots of fear. Now we have a Russian invasion! And residents are getting armed to resist them. How Mirisch et al. resolve this situation makes up for all the clumsiness and stupidity laid out here and common sense somehow prevails. No plot spoiler here, this is a comedy... and a pleasant entertainment. Grab your popcorn and cold drinks, settle in and enjoy. Read full review
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We had seen this movie on the late show some mouths back and could not see it all that night. So we pick it up on e-bay and I must say very funny it has a lot of the old good actors in it I am sure any one that gets it will like it.
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The Russians are Coming is one of the funniest movies ever made and high farce comedy at its best! Made at the height of the Cold War, it was an attempt to show Russians and Americans are similar. An All Star cast of Hollywoods funniest actors of the 1950s & 60s. Really a funny take on Paul Reveare and the Minute Men in a Cold War setting. Again, Killer Funny!!!
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Similar in its illustration of human mass insanity to "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World", this film is more relevant politically in that it satirizes the paranoia that engendered the Cold War. It illustrates the fact that people are the same, good and bad, wherever we come from, and that when we point our fingers at others we're liable to poke our own eye out. A personal, rhetorical question for anyone reading this: if this paranoia is so ridiculous (and it is), then who profits from it? Somebody must because it's such an expensive investment of American Tax Revenues. The film is a bit stereotypical of Russians, but that's Hollywood. And it takes an even-handed approach in that it also stereotypes Small-Town America. Nevertheless the point is made quite effectively.
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