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The Hunt for Red October (1990)

PG-1303/02/1990Action, Adventure, Thriller2h 15m
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Invisible. Silent. Stolen.

Overview

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Sean Connery

    Capt. 1st Marko Ramius

  2. Cast 1

    Alec Baldwin

    Dr. Jack Ryan

  3. Cast 1

    Scott Glenn

    CDR Bart Mancuso (USS Dallas)

  4. Cast 1

    Sam Neill

    Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin

  5. Cast 1

    James Earl Jones

    Vice ADM James Greer

  6. Cast 1

    Joss Ackland

    Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

  7. Cast 1

    Richard Jordan

    Dr. Jeffrey Pelt, National Security Advisor

  8. Cast 1

    Peter Firth

    Capt. 2nd Ivan Putin (Political Officer, Red October)

  9. Cast 1

    Tim Curry

    Dr. Yevgeni Petrov (Red October)

"The Hunt for Red October" is an extremely well paced film throughout and it never leaves us in any doubt that Jack Ryan's assumptions about captain Marko Ramius are unfailingly correct and if anything could have sapped the interest and made this nothing more than an overlong and water logged exercise in boredom then this is it, so it is amazing this never actually happens and indeed the opposite just happens to be true. The film also features a wonderfully tense game of cat and mouse through the briny depths as the submarines Konovalov and Red October track each other and it provides a very s...