Details

Release year: 1966

Storyline

A Soviet officer and crewmen go ashore for help after their submarine runs aground off Nantucket.

Top credits

Directors

Norman Jewison

Writers

Cast

Carl Reiner — Walt Whittaker
Eva Marie Saint — Elspeth Whittaker
Alan Arkin — Lieutenant Rozanov
Brian Keith — Link Mattocks

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Awards

0 wins & 4 nominations

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Did you know

• The film had a profound impact on both American and Soviet leaders. It is one of the few films actually mentioned in the Congressional record. Norman Jewison was also personally invited to Moscow, where he reported that the Russian crowd was transfixed by the scene featuring the little boy who falls from the bell tower and whom the Soviets and Americans cooperate to save.

• Ordinary townspeople were used as extras in the film. They were so thrilled to be a part of production that the rushes were shown at the end of each day in a local theater. The townspeople went every night, taking their entire families with them.

• Theodore Bikel speaks only Russian in the film. Norman Jewison has acknowledged that Bikel's knowledge of the language was a principal reason in casting him.