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The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966) More at IMDbPro »

Pete Whittaker: I counted them. There are nine of 'em!
Walt Whittaker: Oh, come on, Pete.
Pete Whittaker: Two of them got tommyguns. And they're all talking some foreign language. They could be Russians or something!
Elspeth Whittaker: Pete, will you sit down and eat your breakfast, please?
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Pete Whittaker: Ask them if they're Russians!
Walt Whittaker: Peter, be quiet.
Lieutenant Rozanov: [thick Russian accent] Very clever little boy. Very, very clever, to see that my friend and I are foreigners here, but of course not Russian, naturally. What would the Russians be doing on United States of America island, with so many animosities and hatreds between these two countries? It is too funny an idea, is it not? No, we... we are of course... Norveegans.
Walt Whittaker: Norweigans?
Lieutenant Rozanov: [nods] On a small training exercise for the Nyaato countries...
Alexei Kolchin: NATO!
Lieutenant Rozanov: NATO countries, of course, yes. Ah, to reach place of power motorboats it is necessary to make borrowings of automobile, for a short time only, sir.
Walt Whittaker: Uh... uh... may, may I ask you something, please?
Lieutenant Rozanov: Yes, of course.
Walt Whittaker: Are, are there nine of you out there, and are you all Russians with machine guns, and does one of you look like Uncle Ha... I meant, look like a wrestler?
Lieutenant Rozanov: Unnnnnnngh... I am sorry to, uh, comply with your statement, but misfortunately, all of the answers to these questions are... yes.
[draws gun]
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[last lines]
Luther Grilk: [as he gallops through the slums] The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!
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Pete Whittaker: [to his father] Don't tell them anything! He hasn't even tortured you yet!
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Alice Foss, Telephone Operator: Well, I'm sorry to bother you, Chief Mattocks, but I just had a call from Muriel Everett.
Police Chief Link Mattocks: What is it, what's she want?
Alice Foss, Telephone Operator: She was shouting that I should call you, because according to her - well, Muriel said the Russians have landed!
Police Chief Link Mattocks: Want to give me that again, Alice?
Alice Foss, Telephone Operator: Muriel said the Russians have landed, whatever that means, Chief. And she said they were attacking her personally!
Police Chief Link Mattocks: Remember last time, when she called about that Peeping Tom - you know who that was, don't you? It was that Luther Grilk's horse.
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Walt Whittaker: Look, can I give you some advice? You'll never make it down to the harbor. Why don't you all give yourselves up? Either you'll kill somebody, or you'll get killed. Either way - you could start a war!
Lieutenant Rozanov: What is your name?
Walt Whittaker: Whittaker. Walt...
Lieutenant Rozanov: Remark to this, Whittaker Walt. We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island, I make your responsibility you help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming YOU!
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Alexei Kolchin: In Union of Soviet, when I am only young boy, many are saying, Americanski are bad people, they will attack Russia. So all mistrust American. But I think that I do not mistrust American... not really sinceriously. I wish not to hate... anybody!
[He throws a stone into the sea]
Alexei Kolchin: This make good reason to you, Alison Palmer?
Alison Palmer: Well, of course it does. It doesn't make sense to hate people. It's such a waste of time.
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Walt Whittaker: I'm sorry. Are you hurt?
Lieutenant Rozanov: I'm wounded in dignity only. I only came back here to get Kolchin. I never ment you any harm.
Walt Whittaker: [stammering] I'm sorry, I... I wasn't trying to... Well, I... I was trying to kill you, I'll admit that, but it wasn't... I mean, it wasn't anything personal.
Lieutenant Rozanov: Hmm... don't do it no more.
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Lieutenant Rozanov: Please, I know everybody on this island is complete and total crazy. But you, Whittaker Walt? You are crazy too?
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Lieutenant Rozanov: Always I am saying goodbye to you, and always I am meeting you again.
[hands his gun to Walt]
Pete Whittaker: You'd better surrender 'cause my Dad has all the guns! So you'd just better surrender...
Walt Whittaker: Pete. Be quiet!
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Lieutenant Rozanov: Is great idea. I send my men fifty paces and BLOOEY! I congratulate you on extreme genius of this plan. Ptooey!
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Russian sailors: Emergency! Everybody to get from street!
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Officer Norman Jones: We have... GOT... to get organized!
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Police Chief Link Mattocks: I thought all the nuts went home on Labor Day.
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Bartender: All right! All right! But only on one condition! Everybody pays cash!
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Police Chief Link Mattocks: Tell the Captain he's under arrest.
Lieutenant Rozanov: But I...
Police Chief Link Mattocks: Tell the Captain he's under arrest!
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian; subtitled] The policeman says you are under arrest.
The Russian Captain: [laughs loudly; in Russian, subtitled] Tell him that I'm going to blow this town to pieces!
Police Chief Link Mattocks: [to Rozanov] What did he say?
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in English] Well, he's angry, yes. He says, "you stupid idiot," he will blow up the town.
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Russian sailor: [pointing upward] Maltchik, maltchik...
Officer Norman Jones: Huh? Oh, yeah... we got the kid, didn't we?
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Walt Whittaker: [to Alison] Did your brother Fred come with you?
Walt Whittaker: Hi, Fred come in! I've got him now
[jumps on Kolchin's back]
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Muriel Everett: It's those those high school kids...
[when she see the Russians from inside, then she walks out]
Muriel Everett: Russians! Russians!
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian; subtitled] Gromolsky, go shut her up... but gently!
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Police Chief Link Mattocks: [to the Russian sub captain after telling him that he's under arrest] All right, let's have your name and address.
Lieutenant Rozanov: [translating in Russian] We wants our address.
The Russian Captain: [in Russian to the sailors] Point your gun... take aim right between their eyes!
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Lieutenant Rozanov: It is necessary for you to remain in this house at most vigorously for short time only.
Walt Whittaker: Well, we're not going anywhere but...
Lieutenant Rozanov: Good! Please to remain absolutely good behaved so that this man, marksman of prize winning caliber, will not have the necessity of shooting you to small pieces!
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian to Kolchin] Watch them.
[points to Peter]
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian] And especially watch that little bastard too.
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The Russian Captain: [in Russian; subtitled] Comrade, won't you come aboard? Where is everybody?
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian] Tovarich Captain, didn't Lysenko reach you?
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] Lysenko? No. Why do you think I'm here, huh?
Lieutenant Rozanov: Tovarich Captain...
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] Comrade Lieutenant Rozanov, immediately deliver all the shore party aboard.
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian] They're not here!
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] Rozanov, the Americans are lying to you. Don't belive them. They are holding my sailors prisoners.
Lieutenant Rozanov: Tovarish Captain...
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] Comrade Lieutenant Rozanov, I'm giving an order to deliver all my men aboard. Otherwise, I will straighten out this island in such a manner that nobody will be able to find it! I will explode it, do you here me? I will obliterate it from the face of the Earth! I'm giving you three minutes!
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[after their submarine runs aground]
The Russian Captain: [in Russian; subtitled] Devil take it! What a mess! What a mess.
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[the Russians are driving along the road when they see Alison on the road on her bicycle]
Hrushevsky: [in Russian; subtitled] Hey, look at that. Did you see the build on that...
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian] Shut up Hurshevsky, and just drive the car!
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[Pete accuses his father of collabotaring with the enemy]
Pete Whittaker: You told them everything they wanted to know, just like Arnold Benedict!
Walt Whittaker: That's Benedict Arnold, not Arnold... What are you saying, Pete? Are you saying you think your father is a TRAITOR?
Pete Whittaker: Yes I am! I bet I'm the only kid in the fourth grade whose father IS a famous trader.
Walt Whittaker: That's "traitor". Just stop it, Pete! You're being silly!
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[after the Russians in the boat eluded capture]
Fendall Hawkins: I'm holding you responsible!
[draws sword]
Fendall Hawkins: As Commander of the Civilian Forces, in this emergency! I'm charging you with treason!
Police Chief Link Mattocks: Gimme that thing!
[grabs his sword and breaks it in half]
Fendall Hawkins: [half tearful-half enraged] That's a Dexter F. Mettles Memorial Sword.
Police Chief Link Mattocks: Yeah.
Fendall Hawkins: [enraged] You traitorous fink!
[goes for Mattocks, resulting in a brawl]
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[first lines]
[Rozanov arrives on the bridge of the Russian submarine after learing from the chart man how close they are to the USA coast]
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian; subtitled] What is it Captain? What are you doing?
[to a chart man]
Lieutenant Rozanov: Show me our position.
[the chart man shows Rozanov how close they are to an island]
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian] What? WHAT? Tovarich Captain...
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] Take it easy.
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian] Permit me, Captain. Look at our position.
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] I don't need your advice.
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian] But this is dangerous! The chart is old! We do not know these waters.
Russian sailor: [in Russian] Comrade Captain, our depth is at 28 fathoms.
Lieutenant Rozanov: Tovarich Captain...
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] Rozanov, shut up! You are a fool!
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian] What? But we're at twenty-eight!
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] Leave the tower or I'll place you under arrest!
Russian sailor: [in Russian] 23 fathoms.
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian] Don't you hear it?
The Russian Captain: [in Russain] Rozanov, I gave you an order!
[after a pause as the beeping of the sonar grows more intense]
Russian sailor: [in Russian] Sixteen fathoms!
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in Russian to the sailors] Surface! Stop engines!
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] How dare you!
Russian sailor: [in Russian] Twelve fathoms!
The Russian Captain: [in Russian] Down periscope! Full speed astern!
Russian sailor: [in Russian; looking as the sonar] Eight... seven... six... five...
[the submarine shutters violently as it runs aground]
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