Country: USA
Year: 1990
Duration: 135'
In 1984, the commander of the Soviet nuclear submarine Red October, Marko Alexandrovich Ramius (Sean Connery), decides to desert and leads his crew on a journey toward western waters, dodging his nation’s control systems. The first to notice the maneuver is the CIA, which sends its agent Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) to deal with the situation. Ryan guesses Ramius’ intentions and goes onboard the USS Dallas. Silent and invisible, Red October is hunted by both the USA and the Soviet Union. For similar reasons of state, both countries will try to limit the operation as much as possible, as Ramius and Ryan engage in a personal fight, first at a distance, then side by side.
Biography
film director
John McTiernan
(Albany, USA, 1951) after attending the American Film Institute he made his debut as a director in 1986 with the horror movie Nomads. He then found success between the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s with some famous films such as the action and survival movie Predator (1987), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; the catastrophic Die Hard (1988), which launched the career of Bruce Willis (and with whom the director will also work in 1995 for the third chapter of the saga, Die Hard: With a Vengeance), and the cold war thriller The Hunt for Red October (1990). After the unsuccessful of Medicine Man (1992) and Last Action Hero (1993), in 1999 he directed The 13th Warrior and in the same year The Thomas Crown Affair, remake of a classic of the Seventies. Another remake is Rollerball (2002), followed a year later by the thriller Basic (2003).
FILMOGRAFIA
Nomads (id. 1986), Predator (id. 1987), Die Hard (Trappola di cristallo, 1988), The Hunt for Red October (Caccia a Ottobre Rosso, 1990), Medicine Man (Mato Grosso, 1992), Last Action Hero (Last Action Hero - L’ultimo grande eroe, 1993), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (Die Hard - Duri a morire, 1995), The 13th Warrior (Il 13º guerriero, 1999), The Thomas Crown Affair (Gioco a due, 1999), Rollerball (id., 2002), Basic (id. 2003).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: John McTiernan. STORY: from the novel by Tom Clancy. SCREENPLAY: Larry Ferguson, Donald A. Stewart. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jan de Bont. EDITING: Dennis Virkler, John Wright. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Terence Marsh, Mickey S. Michaels. COSTUMES: James W. Tyson. MUSIC: Basil Poledouris. CAST: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Joss Ackland, Richard Jordan, Peter Firth, Tim Curry, Courtney B. Vance, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeffrey Jones. PRODUCTION: Mace Neufeld per Paramount Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions.