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| The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming |
| Day: Saturday May 03 2014 |
| Time: 10:00 PM Eastern |
| Channel: TCM (Turner Classic Movies) |
| Is it weird that, despite the presence of a putz and the fact that the damsel is neither young nor beautiful, this is one of my favorite scenes? |
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Record number: 5707 Title: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) Medium: Movie Actress: Tessie O'Shea, Doro Merande Description: Amusing comedy has two scenes with matronly/largish actresses. In the first, Russian sailors capture the elderly Mrs. Everett (Merande), tie her to a chair and detective gag her with a towel. They then pick up the chair and hang it on a coat hanger screwed into the wall. When the even more elderly -- and deaf -- Mr. Everett (Parker Fennally) comes down for breakfast, he doesn't hear or notice his furiously struggling and mmmphing wife dangling three feet off the floor; he simply grumbles that she hasn't fixed his breakfast. Later in the film Lt. Rosanov (Alan Arkin) and his squad grab Walt Whitaker (Carl Reiner) and portly (OK, fat) telephone operator Alice Foss (O'Shea), tie them standing back to back and detective gag them with black cloths. An amusing scene ensues as they try to communicate through their gags in order to hop down a flight of steps; after three hops, Alice overbalances and the pair rockets head over teacup to the first floor, which manages to loosen the ropes so they can free themselves. If the bondagettes had been Eva Marie Saint (playing Walt's wife) and blonde dreamboat Andrea (Is this any way to run an airline? You bet it is!) Dromm, the movie would be a classic. |
| Horace Walpole |
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