The hunt for Red October [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures presents a Mace Neufeld/Jerry Sherlock production, a John McTiernan film ; producer, Mace Neufeld ; screenplay writers, Larry Ferguson, Donald Stewart ; director, John McTiernan.
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FilmPublisher number: 05640 | Paramount PicturesLanguage: English, French Summary language: Spanish, English Series: Widescreen DVD collectionPublication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, [2003], c1990.Edition: Special collector's ed. ; widescreen version (16x9)Description: 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0792187156
- Director of photography, Jan De Bont ; editors, Dennis Virkler, John Wright ; music, Basil Poledouris ; production designer, Terence Marsh.
- Academy Awards, USA, 1991: Oscar - Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing (Cecelia Hall, George Watters, II)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, Rovi
Based on the novel by Tom Clancy.
Special features: commentary by director John McTiernan; beneath the surface: new cast & crew interviews; theatrical trailer.
Title from container.
Director of photography, Jan De Bont ; editors, Dennis Virkler, John Wright ; music, Basil Poledouris ; production designer, Terence Marsh.
Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill.
A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captian 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. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
MPAA rating: PG; some material may not be suitable for children.
DVD, Dolby digital, DTS surround sound, 5.1 surround, Region 1 encoding.
Close captioned for the hearing impaired.
In English or French with English or Spanish subtitled versions.
Academy Awards, USA, 1991: Oscar - Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing (Cecelia Hall, George Watters, II)