Movie trailer for 1966, The Russians are coming the Russians are coming

[YoshidaYui]

[PoliticAverse]

1. Emergency! Everybody to get from street!! n/t

[Wounded Bear]

11. This demands the video...

[Irish_Dem]

2. I watched this movie recently and it was excellent.

I had seen it years ago and it has stood the test of time.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. That guy talks too much over the trailer

I looked at this film about 20 years ago, and read there was some controversy. Our intelligence community wasn't too happy with portraying the Russians as friendly boobs. I think I read also that attitude drifter over into the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons with their Boris & Natasha characters, and either led to some toning down or was an influence that indicated the time was up for the show.

The humor was very good, but i had to be in a good mood to laugh at it, perhaps because my parents found it hysterical and I didn't quite follow. I found parts of it kind of dumb.

[Mr.Bill]

4. I saw that movie in the theater when it came out.

It was my first real date where I took a girl to a movie. The other movie (remember double features?) was Flight of the Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart. Both great movies.

[PoliticAverse]

5. My parents were going to take me to the drive-in to see it...

but the points on the 1963 Ford Galaxie broke. Had to wait til it made TV to see it.

[Leith]

6. I grew up watching this movie

and it is still one of my favorites.

I don't know why the narrator called Alan Arkin's Russian accent "outrageous." He learned Russian from his grandparents and he speaks it fluently.

[Marthe48]

7. Nathaniel Benchley wrote the novel

Son of Robert Benchley, father of Peter Benchley. Terrific writers, every one

I liked the book better than the movie, but I liked the movie too.

[Brother Buzz]

8. A little filming trivia

The story was set in a fictional New England fishing village, but because it was filmed in Fort Bragg and Mendecino in Northern California, they had to film the sunrise shots in the evening so they could capture the sun on the horizon of the Pacific ocean.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Such a entertaining movie.

Alan Arkin was wonderful. To me, it's funny in the same way "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and "Something Happened on the Way to the Forum" were funny. They don't make them like that anymore. What an era.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Hilarious movie, especially to those of us who lived through the Cold War...nt

[pressbox69]

12. Not a classic

but funny. Before The Evil Empire possessed the Republican Party.