The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! poster
Director Norman Jewison
Screenplay William Rose

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

Tagline: IT'S A PLOT! ...to make the world die laughing!!

Release Date: 1966-05-25

Duration: 126 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Alan Arkin
    Lt. Rozanov
  • Brian Keith
    Police Chief Link Mattocks
  • Carl Reiner
    Walt Whittaker
  • Michael J. Pollard
    Stanley (uncredited)
  • Vaughn Taylor
    Mr. Bell
  • John Phillip Law
    Alexei Kolchin
  • Eva Marie Saint
    Elspeth Whittaker
  • Peter Brocco
    Reverend Hawthorne (uncredited)
  • Jonathan Winters
    Norman Jones
  • Theodore Bikel
    The Russian captain