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THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
May 3, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

This 1966 comedy stars Carl Reiner, and is based on a novel by Nathaniel Benchley, so it’s got comedy cred in every frame. But watch, in particular, for a young actor named Alan Arkin. This was his first movie role, playing a Soviet submarine crewman whose vessel runs aground off the coast of New England – and it’s a star-making turn. Arkin has been brilliant, in both comedies and dramas, ever since, and holds his own here in a movie that also co-stars Jonathan Winters, Theodore Bikel and Eva Marie Saint.

 
 
 
 
 
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