The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming
I don't get out to the movies a lot. Most of the time it's not until much later when the movies are released to television that I get to see them.But I'm blown away when I bump into folks that have not seen The Russians Are Coming!
This has to be one of the funniest movies of all times. Directed by a young Norman Jewison, the cast includes Carl Reiner as.... Walt Whittaker, Eva Marie Saint as.... Elspeth Whittaker, Alan Arkin as.... Lt. Rozanov, Brian Keith as.... Police Chief Link Mattocks, Jonathan Winters as.... Officer Norman Jones, Paul Ford as.... Fendall Hawkins, Theodore Bikel as.... The Russian captain, Tessie O'Shea as.... Alice Foss (telephone operator), John Phillip Law as.... Alexei Kolchin, Ben Blue as.... Luther Grilk, Andrea Dromm as.... Alison Palmer, Sheldon Collins as.... Pete Whittaker (as Sheldon Golomb), Guy Raymond as.... Lester Tilly, Cliff Norton as.... Charlie Hinkson, Richard Schaal as.... Oscar Maxwell, and many more.
The movie had me in stitches, but one scene comes to mind - Carl Reiner and Tessie O'Shea are overpowered by the Russians in the telephone switching room. It's on the second floor with an exposed staircase leading down to the street. The Russians tie the two up together and then leave. Reiner and O'Shea manage to get to their feet and shuffle over to the doorway looking down the exposed staircase. The camera pans back to Reiner's horrified face knowing the large woman tied to him will land on him and surely squish the life out of him.