I don't make any money off this unless you purchase it through an Amazon link like this one…but you can now purchase a nifty Blu-ray of the 1966 movie The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!. What? You say you already own a copy of it? Well, you don't own this one which has a commentary track by Yours Truly and my pal Mike Schlesinger.
This is the 1966 movie directed by Norman Jewison, written by William Rose (the guy who co-wrote It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World) and starring, among others, Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters, Paul Ford and Brian Keith. Personally, I think Brian Keith steals the film…and don't think that's easy, stealing a film with all those other folks in it. But everyone is real good and I'm not saying that because I'm on the commentary track. It's the other way around: I'm on the commentary track because I so love this movie.
Because someone asked: No, there is no DVD being released now of this new edition and I doubt there will be one. If you do not have a Blu-ray player, you're going to have to go Blu-ray sooner or later. I sympathize. I held off moving from Betamax to VHS as long as I could…then held out moving from VHS to Laserdisc…then from Laserdisc to DVD…
Been there. Done that. I held out going from records to CDs until the day something I desperately wanted came out on CD only. I've learned not to fight this. And really, you can pick up a decent Blu-ray player for under forty bucks and will also play all those DVDs you have. There are many battles in this world that are worth fighting. This is not one of them. And if you finally accept that and buy one, do it through my Amazon link over in the right margin of this page. Thank you.
P.S. ADDED LATER: Just to clarify, Kino Lorber does have a DVD version of The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. This new Blu-ray has our commentary track and the DVD does not.