including 1964’s “Dr. Strangelove” and 1966’s “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.” The difference is, they were made by filmmakers who knew what they were doing. Perhaps if Russell had stayed behind the wheel, “Accidental Love” wouldn’t have gone...
6 The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)AA Best Picture Nom Alan Arkin & Brian Keith 24.4 260.5 76 04 / 00 98.2 7 The Professionals (1966) Burt Lancaster & Lee Marvin 22.0 235.0 83 03 / 00 98.2 8 Grand Prix (1966) James Garner & Eva Marie Saint 23.8 253.7 75 ...
His first signature success was the 1966 comedy “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming,” with Alan Arkin. Jewison also produced the popular film, breezy and yet with a message of tolerance; it was Oscar-nominated for best picture. Jewison’s next film, “In the Heat of the...
He was an Oscar winner for “Little Miss Sunshine” and was also nominated for “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,”“The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” and “Argo.” He was a six-time Emmy nominee and won a Tony Award for “Enter Laughing.”Composer Burt Bacharach died ...
directors often choose mood and effect instead of plot, as film. ButNorman Jewison, in “The Thomas Crown Affair,” hasn’t brought it off. The film is a major disappointment, because Jewison promised and achieved so much in “The Russians Are Coming” and “In the Heat of the Night....
Feld was cast with fellow Europeans Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer in Ukrainian director Anatole Litvak's "Tovarich," about exiled royal Russians in Paris during the Bolshevik revolution. The following year Feld was cast as Dr. Fritz Lehman (he would often be cast as a "Fritz") in How...
also takes you inside the Kremlin giving you a glimpse how both sides dealt with the crisis. William Devane and Martin Sheen give excellent performances as Jack and Bobby Kennedy. The entire cast is top-notch. Don't bother with Thirteen Days, it pales by comparison. This is the real deal...
The rest of the performances (made up of mostly Russians) are plain stiff, but there are definite beauties lurking. A fairly tempting Maria Ford is easy on the eyes and Kevin Alber steadily chips in as Bram Stoker. Somewhere there about are Linnea Quigley and Nikki Fritz in extremely minor...
It's a terrible premise: believing that America would be bombed by the Russians in 1962, an eccentric but brilliant scientist (Christopher Walken) and his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek) lock themselves in a homey underground fallout shelter. After the timed locks open after 35 years, their son,...
The woman falls in love, the marine biologist reports secrets to his Russian handlers and the military man plans fatal research to outwit the Russians. Tension rises as the story unfolds. The unusual script and the acting are excellent. I enjoyed the film a lot. (3.5-reels) toc top (...