Clear and Present Danger (film)

Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 American spy thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, based on Tom Clancys book of the same name. It was preceded by the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October and the 1992 film Patriot Games, all three featuring Clancys fictional character Jack Ryan. It is the last film version of Clancys novels to feature Harrison Ford as Ryan and James Earl Jones as Vice Admiral James Greer, as well as the final one directed by Noyce.

A U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat stops a suspicious yacht, discovering that an American businessman and his family have been murdered by several men operating the craft. The murdered man happens to have been a close friend of the President. President Bennett Moffat learns that the man was murdered because of his ties to a drug cartel, having skimmed over 650 million from it. The President tells James Cutter Yulin, his National Security Advisor, that Colombian drug cartels represent a clear and present danger to the U.S., indirectly giving him unofficial permission to kill the men responsible for his friends murder. When Vice Admiral Jim Greer Jones is stricken with terminal cancer, Jack Ryan Ford is appointed Deputy Director of Intelligence and is asked to go before the U.S. Congress to request increased funding for ongoing CIA operations in Colombia.Seeking to keep Ryan out of the loop, Cutter turns to the CIAs Deputy Director for Operations Bob Ritter Czerny, who secures a document giving him permission to act as he sees fit to take down the cartel. Ritter assembles a blackoperations team with the help of John Clark Dafoe. The team inserts itself in Colombia, with Clark running the logistics, and Captain Ricardo Ramirez Bratt leading a ground force in searchanddestroy missions against various drug cartels. ........

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