The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming is a 1966 American Slapstick Comedy Film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchly Juvenile novel The Off Islanders, it was directed by Norman Jewison and Stanley Kramer and adapted for the Screen by William Rose, Michael Jeter, John Hughes, Joe McEveety, Preston Sturges, Tim Conway and Don Knotts. The Movie tells the Cold War story of the comedic Chaos and Raucous mayhem which ensues when the Soviet Submarine Octopus accidentally runs aground near a small New England Island Town. The All-Star Cast includes Carl Reiner, Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Vic Tayback, The Three Stooges, Joe Besser, Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Eva Marie Saint, Theodore Bikel, Ben Blue, Ethel Merman, Groucho Marx, Mel Brooks, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters, Ruth Buzzi, Kirk Douglas, Joe Flynn, Jim Backus, Paul Ford, Cliff Norton, David Niven, Judy Garland, Don Rickles, Jackie Mason, Arnold Stang, Marvin Kaplin, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Herschel Bernardi, Charles Martin Smith, Darren McGavin, George C. Scott], [[Sam Neil, Martin Landau, Sterling Holloway, Terry Thomas, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Ben Turpin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Our Gang, Harold Lloyd, Joel Mccrea, Eddie Bracken, William Demarest, Fred McMurray, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn, Charles McGraw, Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Art Carney, Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Burt Lancaster, James Earl Jones, Robert Armstrong, Peter Falk, Jack Benny, Lauren Bacall, Dinah Shore, William Shatner, The Bowery Boys, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dick Shawn, Buddy Ebsen, Jack Haley, Richard Fiske and in his first film, Alan Arkin.