The Hunt for Red October (film)

The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 American action spy thriller film directed by John McTiernan and starring Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan. The film costars Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones and Sam Neill. It is based on Tom Clancys 1984 novel of the same name. The fictional story is set during the latter Cold War era and involves a rogue Soviet naval captain who wishes to defect to the United States. An American CIA analyst correctly deduces his motive and must prove his theory to the U. S. Navy to avoid a violent confrontation between the Soviet and the American navies.

In November 1984, Soviet submarine Captain First Rank Marko Ramius Sean Connery commands Red October, a new Typhoonclass nuclear sub featuring a caterpillar drive, rendering it undetectable to passive sonar. Ramius leaves port on orders to conduct exercises with the V. K. Konovalov, commanded by his former student Captain Tupolev Skarsgrd. Once at sea, Ramius kills political officer Ivan Putin Peter Firth, and commands the crew to head toward Americas east coast to conduct missile drills.The next morning, CIA analyst Jack Ryan Alec Baldwin briefs government officials on the departure of Red October and the threat it poses. Officials in the briefing learn that the bulk of the Soviet Navy has been deployed to sink Red October, fearing Ramius may plan an unauthorized strike against the United States. Ryan however, hypothesizes that Ramius instead plans to defect, and leaves to meet up with the American submarine USS Dallas to prove his theory. Meanwhile, Tupolev, though unable to track Red October, guesses his former mentors route and sets a new course across the Atlantic. ........

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