Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, The


(MGM, color, NR, 126 min. plus supplements, Dolby Digital, widescreen, $19.98, street: Oct. 15; First Run: W, May 1966, NA)

Just as he did on the supplemental section of the Fiddler on the Roof DVD, filmmaker Norman Jewison tells some fine anecdotes in the digital edition of his The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. Jewison's extended sit-down in The Russians Are Coming to Hollywood, a 23-minute featurette directed and produced by Greg Carson, finds him warmly remembering the production and release of the so-so-comedy with the memorable title--a film he considers to be "a milestone in my career." He gives a lot of credit to production designer Robert Boyle, who manufactured a make-shift Russian submarine when the U.S. Navy wouldn't cooperate with the studio and recreated a Cape Cod-like New England town within California's Mendicino County, where the movie about a grounded Russian sub was filmed. Jewison recounts that Time/Life's Henry Luce approached him after a screening and declared that the film did a wonderful job of capturing the beauty of New England. "I actually shot it a little further West, sir," Jewison smiled back. --Cyril Pearl


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