Hunt for Red October (1990) USA
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Director:John McTiernan
Studio:Paramount
Producer:Mace Neufeld
Writer:Tom Clancy, Larry Ferguson
Rating:4.5
Rated:PG
Date Added:2007-03-06
Purchased On:2007-06-03
ASIN:0792116887
UPC:0097363202035
Price:$9.95
Awards:Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations
Genre:Thrillers
Release:1992-07-12
IMDb:0099810
Duration:134
Picture Format:Anamorphic Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:2.35:1
Sound:Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages:English, Dolby Digital 5.1, English, DTS, French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles:English, Spanish
Features:Commentary by Director John McTiernan
John McTiernan  ...  (Director)
Tom Clancy, Larry Ferguson  ...  (Writer)
 
Sean Connery  ...  Captain Marko Ramius
Alec Baldwin  ...  Jack Ryan
Scott Glenn  ...  Commander Bart Mancuso
Sam Neill  ...  Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin
James Earl Jones  ...  Admiral James Greer
Joss Ackland  ...  Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
Richard Jordan  ...  Dr. Jeffrey Pelt
Peter Firth  ...  Political Officer Ivan Yurevich Putin - Red October
Tim Curry  ...  Dr. Petrov
Courtney B. Vance  ...  Sonarman 2nd Class Ronald Jones
Stellan Skarsgård  ...  Captain Tupolev
Jeffrey Jones  ...  Oliver Wendell 'Skip' Tyler
Timothy Carhart  ...  Bill Steiner
Larry Ferguson  ...  Chief of the Boat Watson - USS Dallas
Fred Dalton Thompson  ...  Rear Admiral Joshua Painter - USS Enterprise
Daniel Davis  ...  
Ned Vaughn  ...  
Anthony Peck  ...  
Mark Draxton  ...  
Tom Fisher  ...  
Comments: Invisible. Silent. Stolen.

Summary: Before Harrison Ford assumed the mantle of playing Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan hero in Patriot Games, Alec Baldwin took a swing at the character in this John McTiernan film and hit one to the fence. If less instantly sympathetic than Ford, Baldwin is in some respects more interesting and nuanced as Ryan, and drawing comparisons between both actors' performances can make for some interesting postmovie discussion. That aside, The Hunt for Red October stands alone as a uniquely exciting adventure with a fantastic costar: Sean Connery as a Russian nuclear submarine captain attempting to defect to the West on his ship. Ryan must figure out his true motives for approaching the U.S. McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard) made an exceptionally handsome movie here with action sequences that really do take one's breath away. --Tom Keogh