The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is an American comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley novel The Off-Islanders, the film was directed by Norman Jewison and 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 accidentally runs aground near a small New England island town. The all-star cast includes Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Theodore Bikel, Jonathan Winters, and in his first film, Alan Arkin. 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 Ann, Gloucester. Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nine-man landing party headed by his second-in-command Lieutenant Yuri Rozanov to find a motor launch to help free the sub from the bar. The men arrive at the house of Walt Whittaker , a vacationing playwright from New York City.
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| Release date: | May 25, 1966 |
| Directed by: | Norman Jewison |
| Runtime: | 126 Minutes |
| Producer: | Norman Jewison, Walter Mirisch |
| Editor: | Hal Ashby, J. Terry Williams |
| Music by: | Johnny Mandel, Bonia Shur |
| Cinematography: | Joseph F. Biroc |
| Screenplay by: | William Rose |
| Adapted from: | Off-Islanders |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |