1966 · comedy · drama
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Directed by Norman Jewison2h 6m1966
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.
Our read: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- funny
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