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Alan Arkin as Rozanov The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966) dir. Norman Jewison
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Alan Arkin as Rozanov The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966) dir. Norman Jewison
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming (1966). Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.
This movie surprised me but not in a good way. It’s just silly, and it’s bizarre to me that it got nominated as widely as it did (even if I do love Alan Arkin). The story is basically a slapstick, Cold War farce, and it never really goes to any satisfying places. Still, it wasn’t awful. 5/10.
The Benchley Roundup by Nathaniel Benchley --Books My Dad Dumped on me That I'll Get Rid of When I Need the Shelf Room Sometimes I think maybe I'm a way station for books my dad doesn't have room for and doesn't want to keep but can't get rid of too quickly. Though I own a lot of books I'm not a book hoarder, so I don't mind getting rid of things. He drops the book with me knowing I'll keep it for a year or two and he can say goodbye gradually. Or maybe I'm putting too much thought into this. I will try to at least read bits of this before I turn it out, since my dad and I have very similar senses of humor.
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming was released in the US on 25 May 1966.
William Rose adapted Nathaniel Benchley's 1961 novel The Off-Islanders, and Norman Jewison directed and produced.
The film was nominated for 4 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Alan Arkin), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing (Hal Ashby and J. Terry Williams). It did not receive and Oscar.
“ The literal-minded will complain that the quotes in this book cannot be accurate, and this is probably true. However, nothing between quote marks has been wholly invented; it has been put down to the best memory of people who actually heard or said what was said, and this is, in the opinion of the author, better than the indirect quotation that convinces nobody. The book is an attempt to bring life to what is rapidly becoming a legend, and to show the subject as he lived and breathed. Play it, Sam.”
- Nathaniel Benchley; Humphrey Bogart
Stuck For A Title
Stuck For A Title
1974: When Peter Benchley finished his story about an enormous shark terrorizing a beach resort on the East Coast of the United States, he was stuck for a title. His father, the novelist and children’s writer Nathaniel Benchley, suggested What’s That Noshin’ on My Laig?. Thanks, dad. In the end, Peter decided to call it Jaws.
Source: André Bernard, Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book…
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Arnold Lobel for The Strange Disappearance of Arthur Cluck by Nathaniel Benchley
