The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming is a 1966 American comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley juvenile novel, The Off-Islanders, it was adapted for the screen by William Rose. The movie tells the Cold War story of the comedic chaos which ensues when the Soviet submarine, Спрут (Sprut, Squid), accidentally runs aground near a small New England island town.
A Russian submarine draws too close to the New England coast when its cap...
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The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming is a 1966 American comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley juvenile novel, The Off-Islanders, it was adapted for the screen by William Rose. The movie tells the Cold War story of the comedic chaos which ensues when the Soviet submarine, Спрут (Sprut, Squid), accidentally runs aground near a small New England island town.
A Russian submarine draws too close to the New England coast when its captain wants to take a good look at America and runs aground on a sandbar near an island off Cape Cod. A nine-man landing party headed by Lieutenant Rozanov (Alan Arkin) is sent in search of a motor launch to help free the submarine. The men arrive at the house of Walt Whittaker (Carl Reiner), a vacationing playwright from New York City anxious to get his wife Elspeth (Eva Marie Saint) and two children, Pete (Sheldon Collins) and Annie (Cindy Putnam) off the island now that summer is over.
Failing to convince the Whittakers that his group are...
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