The Hunt for Red October [Blu-ray]

Color	Color
Director	John McTiernan
Editor	Dennis Virkler, John Wright, Peter Zinner
Format	DVD
Language	English/French/Espanol
Rating	PG
Run Time	135 min
Special Effects	Al di Sarro, Terry Frazee, Scott Squires, Scott E. Anderson
Stars	Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill
Subtitles	English/French/Espanol/Por
Year Released	1990

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The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and steers his sub Red October towards American waters, hoping to defect. The CIA, aware that the Red October was about to embark on an evasive mission to demonstrate its ability to avoid detection and fire its nuclear missiles upon U.S. installations, believes that Ramius is insane, and that he plans to start World War III. To cover their own behinds, the Russians back up the CIA's suspicion. Only Jack Ryan believes that Ramius' mission is not as apocalyptic as it seems -- and it is Ryan who is assigned to infiltrate the Red October to prove his theory. The sort of film that in an earlier era would have been called a "thinking man's thriller," The Hunt for Red October ushered in a new series of Hollywood-produced post-Cold War adventure films, including 1995's Crimson Tide. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide