The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Director: John McTiernan Writers (WGA): Tom Clancy (novel) Larry Ferguson (screenplay)

Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller

Plot Outline: Based on the Best Selling novel by Tom Clancy this film tells the story of Captain Marko Ramius, the skipper of the Soviet Union's newest nuclear sub. Jack Ryan of the CIA gets involved in a tense, tangled hunt for this sub, when Ramius defects, taking the "Red October" with him. The story is an action packed techno-thriller.

CAST

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