Figure 62: One of the most important movies of the cold war period, The Russians Are Coming opens with a single eye peering out of the darkness. An obvious image for a movie about a submarine, there is probably no deeper significance associating it with the all-seeing eye.
The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Directed by Norman Jewison, written by Nathaniel Benchley (novel) William Rose (screenplay). Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters, Theodore Bikel, Tessie O'Shea, John Phillip Law, Ben Blue, Andrea Dromm, Sheldon Collins, Guy Raymond, Cliff Norton, Richard Schaal. 126 min Country: USA, English / Russian. Colour, Mono.
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