The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming

inside an enigma." Winston Churchill 
Welcome to the Cold War 2.0. Are the Russians really coming? Is this all just a media frenzy to distract us from the lizard people? Will Jeff Sessions ever answer a single question? While it might feel like we're woefully unprepared to answer these hard-hitting questions, luckily, we've been here before and our past selves have left us with a multitude of films on our relationship with Russia and its potential invasion. (It's the cute, modern day 'will they or won't they.') We're kicking off our series The Russians are Coming with its namesake: Norman Jewison's The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming from 1966.
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander (Theodore Bikel) orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief (Brian Keith) and a vacationing television writer (Carl Reiner), while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
Dir. Norman Jewison. 1966. 126 min.
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