The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

It was like the only way he was allowed to be respected.

at this point in time where like if he were to be loud more aggressive I guess it would be shunned in society like in order to be accepted as a leading man he had to have that like calm persona and a lot of the characters that he played were like relegated to that to the point where this was seen as a subversion of that even though it is still doing the thing yeah it's just like a little bit less Director Norman Jewison had been nominated for Best Picture the previous year for The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, which we talked about in the A Man for All Seasons episode.

In the Heat of the Night was the second film in his two film deal with United Artists, who we've talked about a lot on this podcast.

They were one of the little three studios invented to create an alternative to studio filmmaking.

They're not writing in blank checks.

Seven years.

But it was the success of The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming that allowed this film to be shot on location.

Nice.

Um, the, I...

Now, Milos Milos was also known for, uh, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, which I have not-

Mm

... seen him in.

Coming Home was written by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones from a story by Nancy Dowd, directed by Hal Ashby, who we have seen before with Shampoo I think was the other movie that we've, we've seen.

And there was another one that I'm, uh, the Russians.

Oh, well, he's the editor for the Russians are coming.

The Russians are coming.

Um, shampoo last detail.

We'll see him again for being there.

It was up against Alfie.

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, The Sand Pebbles, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

I know.

It did win one, two, three, four, five, six Oscars for Best Picture, Actor for Paul Schofield, Directing for Fred Zinnemann, Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Cinetography, color, because they were still doing black and white versus color.