The Day the Fish Came Out

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The Day the Fish Came Out (1967)

10/02/1967 (US) Science Fiction, Comedy 1h 49m

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A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.

Mihalis Kakogiannis

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Tom Courtenay

The Navigator
Candice Bergen

Electra Brown
Colin Blakely

The Pilot
Sam Wanamaker

Elias
Ian Ogilvy

Peter
Dimitris Nikolaidis
Nikos Alexiou
Patricia Burke

Mrs. Mavroyannis
Paris Alexander
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A review by Wuchak

7.0

Written by Wuchak on November 1, 2020

Those wild and crazy late 60s

Released in 1967, "The Day the Fish Came Out" was the next film of director/writer Mihalis Kakogiannis after his acclaimed "Zorba the Greek" (1964). This is a cautionary cold war satire that includes elements of "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming," "Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," "Village of the Giants" and the goofier James Bond flicks of the 60s-70s, e.g. "Thunderball" and "Diamonds Are Forever."

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