The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

The Mouse That Roared

Russkies... please don't laugh.

Also any James Bond movie that featured West v. Russia.

You and Cowhead are pals, or did I miss a name change somewhere along the line?

Nope, don't know cowhead -- at least I don't think I do -- but we do hail from the same pasture. Small world.

I was just noting your user title, which essentially translates as "Cowheadville"...

Yeah, I was wondering when someone was going to pickup on that -- had to give it away in this thread tho'. I also always found the city of Vacaville in CA an interesting usage of 'Spanglais'... parlez Usted ingles?.

edit: and oh yeah, there was also the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca:
http://www.english.swt.edu/CSS/alvar1CDV.HTML

Poor kid -- I don't know what his parents were thinking... :headshake

Ok, since you all blew through the stop sign above, I'll don my lemming suit and vote for Manchurian Candidate. Yes, Frankie Baby, haven't seen the remake. Maybe someday. Denzel Washington is a fine actor, and he features in another good movie in this genre, Crimson Tide.

ahem,

Yes?

The chair recogizes the appendages three. You have the floor, sirs. No offense intended of course.

Three Days of the Condor. I remember seeing it in Israel and being searched before entering the theatre. The search really added to the paranoia factor of the movie.

Here is the script.

I watched that on TV when I was in college. There was a thunderstorm the night of the broadcast that came in quickly, with very little warning, and announced it's presence by producing a lightning bolt that struck the science building which was next to my dormatory.

The building survived, but one sorority girl melted down, as she beleived that the "big one" had just hit.

It was pretty hilarious.

I actually thought Countdown to Looking Glass was a much better movie, with a more realistic scenario. It was made for HBO and didn't get a lot of attention.

I also saw Threads (sometimes referred to as "The British Day After" and When the Wind Blows which is a very poignant cartoon.

In the vein of Dr. Strangelove, I also am a fan of By the Dawn's Early Light which I may have a copy of somewhere in the massive pile of video tapes.

The original Manchurian Candidate is another favorite, as is From Russian with Love.

One that wasn't quite as distinguished was S*P*I*E*S (Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould were so good in M*A*S*H they have to be really great in a campy spy movie with a really bad script).

I also count the two James Coburn "Flint" movies as kind of cold war flicks, even there was only a brief walk-on by actual Russians in the second one.

See, I told you there would be more.

I will have to go with "Top Secret" with Val Kilmer.

That and "Flight of the Navigator."

Forgot Wargames.

Oh!!! And Colossus: The Forbin Project

Welcome to the cellar Hemlock.

Big movie fan? If you are, you'll have plenty of company here.