The Hunt for Red October

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DVD Features:

Rated: PG
Closed captioning available
Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Video: Color
Released: May 6, 2003
Originally Released: 1990
Label: Paramount
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Packaging: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 1.85
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:

Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Stereo - French
DTS - English

Additional Release Material:

Featurette: BENEATH THE SURFACE
Audio Commentary: John McTiernan - Director
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer

Interactive Features:

Scene Selection
Interactive Menus

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn & Sean Connery
Performer:		James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Tim Curry, Joss Ackland & Timothy Carhart
Directed by		John McTiernan
Edited by		Dennis Virkler, John Wright & Peter Zinner
Screenwriting by		Larry Ferguson, Robert Garland, John Milius, David Shaber & Donald Stewart
Composition by		Basil Poledouris
Story by		Tom Clancy
Produced by		Mace Neufeld
Director of Photography:		Jan de Bont

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1990 - Best Sound Effects Editing

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 04/05/1990
"...The payoff is electrifying..."

New York Times - 03/02/1990
"...An elegy for those dear, dark, terrible days of the cold war....[Connery] makes it look good..."

Los Angeles Times - 03/02/1990
"...There's an amiable smartness to the underwater thriller THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER....The production is clean and effective....The undersea intensity is captured perfectly..."

Product Description:

In the tradition of DIE HARD and PREDATOR, director John McTiernan presents audiences with yet another techno thriller: THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. Sean Connery plays Captain Marko Ramius, a dissatisfied Russian commander who navigates his submarine towards America in an attempt to defect. Soviet intelligence claims that Ramius is a warmonger and that he plans to launch nuclear missiles at the United States. Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), an iconoclastic CIA agent, believes otherwise: American spies have determined that the submarine is powered by a stealth engine. In order to save the "caterpillar drive" and avoid a nuclear incident, Agent Ryan must board the Red October and assist Captain Ramius in its navigation to U.S. waters. Both murky and captivating, the underwater visual and sound effects are reminiscent of DAS BOOT. Once again director McTiernan produces a winning film with a jagged plot, a well acted script, and plenty of explosions.

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Production Notes:

The role of Captain Marko Ramius was originally to have been played by Klaus Maria Brandauer.
Shot in Los Angeles and San Diego, California; Alaska; Puget Sound in Washington State; Leningrad and Moscow, Russia. Color by Technicolor. Began shooting April 3, 1989. Released in USA March 2, 1990.
Approximate budget $30 million, of which Sean Connery reportedly received $4 million. Tom Clancy received $600,000 for the rights to his novel.
Among the writers who reportedly worked on the script were Robert Garland, David Shaber, and John Milius.
Followed by a sequel, "Patriot Games" (1992), starring Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan.
Available to buy in the UK.
Rated BBFC PG by the British Board of Film Classification.