The movie "The Russians are coming"
Nelson Scott-Allen
80's and my memory seems to remember a USN F-14 flying over the
Russian submarine.
But I went to check out the movie at IMDB.com at:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060921
and much to my surprise the movie is from 1966, if that is true then
of course there were no F-14 available back then so I now assume that
my memory is playing tricks on me.
Does anybody remember that movie? Was it an F-14 or was the movie from
76 rather than 66?
Andre
George
What a great movie! I do believe it was '66, and I dont remember
the incident
youre talking about, but I think I have it on tape somewhere and
Ill give it
another viewing.
"Emergency! Emergency! Everyone to get from street!"
George
Scott M. Kozel
I saw it at a theater when I was a mid-teenager. 1966 sounds right.
I thought that it was the USAF that responded to the old war veteran's
"alert". It was pretty funny seeing him riding his horse at the end of
the movie doing a takeoff of "The British are Coming!" :-)
Perhaps F-4 Phantoms?
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Dwayne Allen Day
: I remember watching that movie on TV when I was a kid in the early
: 80's and my memory seems to remember a USN F-14 flying over the
: Russian submarine.
: and much to my surprise the movie is from 1966, if that is true then
: of course there were no F-14 available back then so I now assume that
: my memory is playing tricks on me.
It was an F-101 in USAF markings. Two of them, silver, unpainted. They
made a low and slow pass, spewing dirty smoke.
The F-14 showed up in the movie The Final Countdown and flew over a boat
in that film. I am not sure if F-14s appeared in any movie before this
one.
D
Mark Borgerson
George wrote:
>
> Nelson Scott-Allen wrote:
> >
> > I remember watching that movie on TV when I was a kid in the early
> > 80's and my memory seems to remember a USN F-14 flying over the
> > Russian submarine.
> >
> > But I went to check out the movie at IMDB.com at:
> >
> > http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060921
> >
> > and much to my surprise the movie is from 1966, if that is true then
> > of course there were no F-14 available back then so I now assume that
> > my memory is playing tricks on me.
> >
> > Does anybody remember that movie? Was it an F-14 or was the movie from
> > 76 rather than 66?
> >
>
Must not have been an F-14. They didn't enter service until about '72.
I think the movie was filmed in '66. I remember it because it was
filmed in and around Mendocino, California. I worked on highway
improvements there as a summer job during the summer of '64 and recognized
some of the buildings. Mendocino was picked because it was
a lot closer to Hollywood, yet had the look of a coastal New England
town.
Mark Borgerson
David E. Powell
at the time. IIRC it lasted until the 70s in US and Canadian service, and
some Canadian reconnaissance versions were around up into the 1980s. :)
It was a fine movie, too :)
DEP
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Mark Borgerson
"David E. Powell" wrote:
>
> The plane in question is an F-101 Voodoo, an interceptor that was in service
> at the time. IIRC it lasted until the 70s in US and Canadian service, and
> some Canadian reconnaissance versions were around up into the 1980s. :)
>
> It was a fine movie, too :)
Yep, started with a good story and added a pretty good cast. Of course,
the author (Peter Benchley) had another hit a few years later that also
had a pretty good story and cast. (Opening scene: Young woman swimming
off New England beach. Cue Shark! Action!)
Mark Borgerson
Dennis
Where in the heck did you pull this answer from? I saw the movie, it was
funny when I was 6... Did you have it on tape?
Dennis
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Dwayne Allen Day
: Question:
: Where in the heck did you pull this answer from?
Why the tone?
: I saw the movie, it was funny when I was 6... Did you have it on tape?
I am a Cold War historian and a fan of Cold War movies. "The Russians Are
Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" is a great Cold War movie from the
liberal perspective. (The message was that we would all get along if we
just learned to talk to each other.) I think it's a really fun film (I
particularly like the scene where the great actor Alan Arkin, as the
Russian submarine officer, is trying to teach his men how to get all the
townspeople out of the street. He teaches them a common English
phrase: "Emergency! Everybody to get from street!").
I think I first saw the movie in the 1980s and rented it a couple of times
in the 1990s. The first time I saw it I did not recognize the planes and
looked them up. Ever since then, the fact that they were F-101 Voodoos
has stuck in my mind.
A better question is what kind of sub did they use to simulate the Russian
submarine?
D
Dwayne Allen Day
: Yep, started with a good story and added a pretty good cast. Of course,
: the author (Peter Benchley) had another hit a few years later that also
: had a pretty good story and cast. (Opening scene: Young woman swimming
: off New England beach. Cue Shark! Action!)
Nope. Nathaniel Benchley wrote "The Russians Are Coming." His son, Peter
Benchley, wrote "Jaws."
D
Dennis
Gato class maybe (for the sub)?
Dennis
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Mark Borgerson
Right you are! Sloppy research on my part---but good books. Peter has
done
several others including 'The Deep' and 'Creature'. The movie of 'The
Deep'
may be better remembered for Jaqueline Bissett's diving attire than the
large moray eel, though. IIRC, 'Creature', the movie, wasn't at all
up to the standards of 'Jaws' and 'The Deep'.
Mark Borgerson
Dwayne Allen Day
:> Nope. Nathaniel Benchley wrote "The Russians Are Coming." His son, Peter
:> Benchley, wrote "Jaws."
:>
: Right you are! Sloppy research on my part---but good books.
No special skills on my part. I just looked it up on imdb, which stated
that Peter was his son (I was pretty sure, however, that Peter was a
little too young to be writing movies in 1966).
: Peter has done : several others including 'The Deep' and
:'Creature'.
See a trend there? He had one good idea and then tried to capitalize on
it for years.
: The movie of 'The Deep'
: may be better remembered for Jaqueline Bissett's diving attire than the
: large moray eel, though. IIRC, 'Creature', the movie, wasn't at all
: up to the standards of 'Jaws' and 'The Deep'.
The Deep is not a bad film. I think that in many ways they undercut
themselves by making it an issue of her diving in a wet
tee-shirt. Eliminate that cheap aspect of it and it was a decent
thriller, although also somewhat derivative of that era.
D
Mark Borgerson
I agree with that. It had good stars and a good story. I thought
that the underwater scenes were well done also. I appreciate them
much more now that I have done a bit of SCUBA diving too. Must have
been a lot of work to keep the water clear for the shots, though.
Seems much too clear for any kind of wreck---even in clear
tropical waters.
Mark Borgerson
Steve Bartman
<bexl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>'think it was '66 - it had Alan Arkin in it - and a cute blonde
Absolutely. The actress who played the nanny was stunning. But Carl
Reiner stole the show from Arkin IMO. (The Soviet sub CO too. What a
caricature.)
The networks played the hell out of this movie in pre-cable days, but
I haven't seen it for years.
Steve
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Michael McGuire
>
> Nelson Scott-Allen wrote:
> >
> > I remember watching that movie on TV when I was a kid in the early
>
> What a great movie! I do believe it was '66, and I dont remember
> the incident
> youre talking about, but I think I have it on tape somewhere and
> Ill give it
> another viewing.
>
> "Emergency! Emergency! Everyone to get from street!"
>
> George
Not quite--it came out as "Egermency! Egermency!..."
Mike
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George
Michael McGuire wrote:
>
> George wrote:
> >
<<snip>>
> >
> > "Emergency! Emergency! Everyone to get from street!"
> >
> > George
>
> Not quite--it came out as "Egermency! Egermency!..."
LOL... Alan Arkin was great in the flick....
George
Dwayne Allen Day
:> "Emergency! Emergency! Everyone to get from street!"
:>
: Not quite--it came out as "Egermency! Egermency!..."
Well, most of the men got it right. One of them kept saying
"Egermency" and Arkin said in Russian something like "Okay, you keep
quiet..."
Arkin was brilliant as the exasperated executive officer of the sub.
D
JDupre5762
>
>Absolutely. The actress who played the nanny was stunning. But Carl
>Reiner stole the show from Arkin IMO. (The Soviet sub CO too. What a
>caricature.)
>
>>The networks played the hell out of this movie in pre-cable days, but
>I haven't seen it for years.
Saw it on AMC or Turner Classics in the last three months. IIRC in wide screen
format too. Brian Keith had a very good turn as the exasperated Chief of
Police. I had an Uncle who had stint as an extra in the scene where the
townspeople show up in the harbor with guns. Got to bring his own gun!
John Dupre'
George
Ahhh.. thats where I saw it last! I had the tape years ago, but
lent
it to a friend; never saw it again... I thought I had watched it
recently...
George
>
> John Dupre'