The Hunt for Red October

Movie

1990

2h 15m

PG-13

English

Action, Adventure, Thriller

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The Hunt for Red October

PG-13

Movie

1990

2h 15m

English

Action, Adventure, Thriller

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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!

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Cast

Marko Ramius

Jack Ryan

Bart Mancuso

Captain Borodin

Admiral Greer

Andrei Lysenko

Jeffrey Pelt

Ivan Putin

Dr. Petrov

Seaman Jones

Captain Tupolev

Skip Tyler

Bill Steiner

Chief of the Boat

Admiral Painter

Captain Davenport

Seaman Beaumont

Thompson

Dallas Seaman

Dallas Seaman

Dallas Seaman

Lieutenant Melekhin

Loginov

Ivan

Officer #1

Directed By: John McTiernan

Written By: Tom Clancy (Novel), Larry Ferguson (Screenplay), + 1 more

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FinFan says...

8 years ago

After watching this back then I bought the book and became and instant Clancy fan. Althought the movies in general can´t reach up to the books because those are too complex there are some really good ones. Red October definately belongs into that category. It´s a classic cold war thriller with lots of suspension. Highly entertaining with great actors. Joh McTiernan did a great job of mixing the elements together. But as mentioned I recommend checking out Clancys books if you like this kind of storys. Especially the early ones of which a lot of the movies are based on are great.

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ketu says...

11 years ago

The movie is pretty old, I know. But I still love it to watch on a Sunday when you are wasted because Saturday night was a hard party night. :D

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tyrannic_puppy says...

4 years ago

Hell of a good movie that doesn't try to paint one side or the other as the 'bad guy', and as such avoids the usual politics of such premises and pulls off some fairly tense stand-offs at several key moments. But my absolute favourite part, only noticed on this most recent rewatch is that Stanley is credited as playing himself. A cute little tidbit that I missed so many times watching as a younger man.

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nmahoney416 says...

6 years ago

I thought this was going to be a full blown spy action movie. The slow burn suspenseful movie was a surprise. The story is pretty interesting and the acting is good for the most part. It was a little too long and boring at parts. The special effects are a little dated. Still worth a watch.

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drqshadow

7/10 5 years ago

A fine reminder that not all Cold War-era period pieces are unabashed feasts of propaganda. _Red October_ certainly paints the Russians in a very secretive light, but such treatment isn't unfair and the Americans on the other side of the ocean are hardly championed as the infallible superheroes More

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Wuchak

2 years ago

**_Submarine strategies with Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and Scott Glenn_**

Just before Gorbachev’s rise to power in the USSR, a notable naval commander (Connery) takes a technologically advanced submarine on its maiden voyage to conduct missile drills off of America's east coast. Something happ More

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