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Genre | Action, Thriller |
Format | Multiple Formats, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Color |
Contributor | Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sean Connery, Sam Neill, John McTiernan |
Language | English, French |
Runtime | 2 hours and 15 minutes |
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Based on Tom Clancy's bestseller, "The Hunt for Red October" seethes with high-tech excitement and the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their hands. 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. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. The entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too. 1990 135 min
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 1.6 ounces
- Item model number : 2237068
- Director : John McTiernan
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Color
- Run time : 2 hours and 15 minutes
- Release date : May 18, 2010
- Actors : Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Scott Glenn, Alec Baldwin, Sean Connery
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1), Unqualified, French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
- Studio : Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00008K76U
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,172 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #31 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #122 in Action & Adventure DVDs
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Sometime in the early 1980s I was looking through novels in the local bookstore searching for that one elusive book that would make a great birthday present for my mother. I came across a work by an author I had never heard of, and a novel that sounded as if it had an interesting `Firefox-like' plot. The author was Tom Clancy and the novel was `The Hunt for Red October.'
Fast forward several years and in 1990 Paramount Pictures released the Sean Connery/Alec Baldwin starring adaptation of the novel. The movie was a triumphant success, even given its longer than usual running time and its lack of real action (most of the actual action occurs in the final moments of the film). What held the movie together, and kept the viewers rapt attention, was the simply incredible acting and presence of Sean Connery as Soviet sub captain Marko Ramius and the building suspense and tension that pervades the well structured plot.
The plot centers on the plan by Ramius to, with the help of some fellow crewmembers, to defect to the United States, taking with him the newest sub in the Russian fleet - the Red October (named after the October revolution. The Red October is capable of running silent with a new propulsion system that makes it almost invisible to sonar. The Russians launch a mission to destroy the submarine and even tell the Americans that Ramius is a rogue in an attempt to elicit their help in sinking the ship.
The one American who doesn't believe the Russian story is CIA analyst Jack Ryan (played in this movie by Alec Baldwin). Having met Ramius previously and studied him he suspects the true intention of the Soviet captain. He must convince his bosses and eventually an American sub captain (played wonderfully by Scott Glenn) to trust him and give Ramius a chance.
Taut and at times nerve wrenching (the blind timed navigating through the underwater trenches), the `Hunt for Red October' is simply one of the best techno-thrillers to come out of Hollywood in the past two decades. Sticking fairly close to the Clancy novel, McTiernan keeps building the pressure and ratcheting up of the stakes until an explosive final confrontation off the Labrador coast.
For the collectors edition Paramount has provided us with not only a commentary by McTiernan but also a nice "making of.." documentary. I have always been disappointed with McTiernan commentaries (`The Thomas Crown Affair' is a case in point) and again here with `The Hunt for Red October' there is a lot of dead air with not much being said. Where this DVD does score top marks is in the documentary. We are provided with some fairly in-depth insight into what went into the making of the picture.
Featuring all the leading actors in the movie and the production team responsible the documentary covers every angle and even reveals how close they came to not signing Connery when the Scottish actor was faxed the entire script sans the opening scroll.
A great movie and this well-made documentary make this DVD a must buy - Recommended.
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There are a number of very good, thrilling, edge-of-the-seat movies made about submarine warfare, set both during WW2 and the Cold War. As examples: ‘Das Boot’(1981), the German masterpiece (and subsequent TV series); Dick Powell’s wonderful ‘The Enemy Below’(1957); & Robert Wise’s fine ‘Run Silent, Run Deep’(1958) all cover WW2. The excellent British-American ‘The Bedford Incident’(1965) and superb ‘Crimson Tide’(1995) are more contemporary.
Dramatic events playing out on submarines inevitably start from a strong position because of the setting, in a confined space, with jeopardy resulting from the physical positioning under the waves, as well as enemy action. Sounds are magnified. Human errors, mechanical failure, treachery, can have existential impact. Catastrophe is unqualified. So a good story, a well-written script, set on board a submarine, does signpost a possible winner. If that story is by Tom Clancy, and the source novel is already a best-seller, things are really cooking!
Clancy’s 1984 book was his first. The central character, Jack Ryan, is a CIA analyst, a clever man but not trained for field work ~ though that changes in subsequent novels and films, Events are contemporaneous, taking place in the final months before the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Soviet Politburo on 11 March 1985. This was the event that began the inexorable trajectory of the Soviet Union towards its dissolution, in December 1991. Prior to Gorbachev’s election however, there was a period of extreme instability, with two leaders (Andropov and Chernenko) elected and dying in quick succession, and an intensification of the Cold War. The book and film are set against this chilling backdrop, which although it is not mentioned, is woven into the fabric of events playing out. The development of a new, stealth, weapon, a sure-fire killer, is only too believable, and it makes the behaviour of a crew apparently gone rogue, totally unpredictable. Can Ryan unpick this high stakes conundrum? This is what the film considers.
The director of this winning formula is also a winner: John McTiernan of ‘Predator’(1987) and ‘Die Hard’(1988) fame. He takes Clancy’s sizzling premise by the scruff of the neck, and develops a blockbuster! The production team and cast were allowed unprecedented access to US submarines, although the filming was carried out on soundstages. In the days before CGI, everything was created using standard cinematic techniques, and hugely impressive it is.
The cast is large and seriously starry. Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin lead, as the Russian sub Captain, Marko Ramius, and Jack Ryan. Scott Glen as the CO of the US sub, and the late Richard Jordan, as the US National Security Advisor, are especially effective. So too is Courtney Vance, as the US sonar operator. McTiernan draws intense, committed, performances from everyone, and it makes for powerful drama.
It is ironic that the release of the film coincided with events leading to the end of the Soviet Union. For a while, the plot may have seemed ancient history. Now, in 2024, that is sadly, no longer the case. Watching this film is a reminder of how bad things can get, and it is well worth 6 chilling Stars.
La imagen de la película tiene una calidad perfecta. Esta en castellano, aunque prefiero el inglés para oírles. El sonido magnifico. Uso un antiguo amplificador Luxman y unos también antiguos Bose, aun no tengo Home Cinema, y no sé si,...
El guión es bueno y te mantiene en tensión, hasta el desenlace, con guiños de humor. Una gran film.
El envío perfecto y a tiempo. Me encantaría que todas mis compras futuras me provoquen la misma satisfacción que esta.
Well filmed, far out but still just plausible, this is good entertainment. Better than average.