The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024 · Action · Comedy
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Film / 1966
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Directed by
Norman Jewison
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Carl ReinerWalt Whittaker
Eva Marie SaintElspeth Whittaker
Alan ArkinLt. Rozanov
Brian KeithPolice Chief Link Mattocks
Paul FordFendall Hawkins
Theodore BikelThe Russian captain
Jonathan WintersNorman Jones
Tessie O'SheaAlice Foss
John Phillip LawAlexei Kolchin
Ben BlueLuther Grilk
Guy RaymondLester Tilly
Andrea DrommAlison Palmer
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Sheldon CollinsPete Whittaker
Cliff NortonCharlie Hinkson
Richard SchaalOscar Maxwell
Philip CoolidgeMr. Porter
Don KeeferIrving Christiansen
Cindy PutnamAnnie Whittaker
Parker FennellyMr. Everett
Doro MerandeMuriel Everett
Vaughn TaylorMr. Bell
Johnny WhitakerJerry Maxwell
Danny KlegaPolsky
Paul VerdierMaliavin
Nikita KnatzGromolsky
Constantine BaksheefVasilov
Alex HassilevHrushevsky
Milos MilosLysenko
Gino GottarelliKregitkin
Paul BarselouTownsman (uncredited)
Peter BroccoReverend Hawthorne (uncredited)
Sidney CluteTownsman (uncredited)
Laurence HaddonBartender (uncredited)
Larry D. MannMan with a Cat (uncredited)
James McCallionTownsperson (uncredited)
Michael J. PollardStanley (uncredited)
Ray Baxter
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