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The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966) was a Comedy - War Film directed by Norman Jewison and produced by Norman Jewison and Walter Mirisch.

Academy Awards 1966 --- Ceremony Number 39 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActorAlan ArkinNominated
Best Film EditingHal Ashby, J. Terry WilliamsNominated
Best PictureNorman Jewison, ProducerNominated
Best WritingWilliam RoseNominated
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The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966)

By Beatrice on Jan 10, 2019 From Flickers in Time

The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming Directed by Norman Jewison Written by William Rose from a novel by Nathaniel Benchley 1966/USA The Mirsch Corporation First viewing/Netflix Peacenik comedy was undoubtedly funnier at the time than it is now. A Soviet submarine commander comes up for a ... Read full article


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[after the Russians in the boat eluded capture]
Fendall Hawkins: I'm holding you responsible!
[draws sword]
Fendall Hawkins: As Commander of the Civilian Forces, in this emergency! I'm charging you with treason!
Police Chief Link Mattocks: Gimme that thing!
[grabs his sword and breaks it in half]
Fendall Hawkins: [half tearful-half enraged] That's a Dexter F. Mettles Memorial Sword.
Police Chief Link Mattocks: Yeah.
Fendall Hawkins: [enraged] You traitorous fink!
[goes for Mattocks, resulting in a brawl]


Police Chief Link Mattocks: I thought all the nuts went home on Labor Day.


Walt Whittaker: [to Alison] Did your brother Fred come with you?
Walt Whittaker: Hi, Fred come in! I've got him now
[jumps on Kolchin's back]


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Although the action in the film is supposed to take place on fictional "Gloucester Island" off the coast of New England, most of the outdoor scenes were filmed in Mendocino California. Mendocino in the 1960s was a somewhat remote artist colony on a rocky cape projecting into the Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles north of San Francisco. The harbor scenes were filmed in NOYO Harbor, just south of Fort Bragg, where Carine's Fish Grotto and Cappy's Bar still exist to this day. (2006)
Johnny Whitaker (spelled 'Johnnie' in the credits) so impressed Brian Keith that when TV's Family Affair began casting later that same year, Keith requested Whitaker test for the part of his nephew.
The Air Force fighters sent to bomb the sub are McDonnell Douglas F-101B Voodoos from the 437th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Oxnard AFB, California (now Camarillo Airport).
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