Film Review and Podcast by c d kaplan
There are just times these days when a guy needs something light and frothy.
Silly even.
Mindless.
Funny.
Like the other evening, when I found myself clicking through the streaming sites, looking for some or hopefully all of the above.
Didn’t have to be new. Could be from Back When.
I settled on the latter when, at Amazon Prime, I came across Alan Arkin’s 1966 debut in the Oscar nominated comedy, “The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming.”
Which I saw at the time of its release. I remembered the general plot, but few of the specifics. During the Cold War, a Russkie spy submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a Massachusetts Island. They need to go ashore to commandeer a boat to pull them free.
Arkin leads the landing party. The citizens panic. Zaniness prevails.
It was just what I needed.
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