The Hunt for Red October (film)

The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was directed by John McTiernan and stars Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and was one of the top grossing films of the year, grossing $122 million in North America and $200 million worldwide. The film won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1991.

Plot

Captain First Rank Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) is the commanding officer of Red October, a new Soviet submarine whose caterpillar drive renders it undetectable.

The year is 1984. Ramius receives orders to take the boat to sea for exercises with the submarine V.K. Konovalov, commanded by his arrogant former student Captain Tupolev (Stellan Skarsgård). Ramius murders political officer Ivan Putin (Peter Firth), the only person onboard superior to his command and the only one besides himself who has read the sub's true orders. Ramius then burns these orders and replaces them with fake ones, tells the crew Putin died by slipping on his tea and breaking his neck, and that their 'mission' is to conduct nuclear missile drills off America's east coast, then to put in at Cuba for R&R. The Dallas, an American submarine on patrol nearby, detects Red October but loses contact once Ramius engages the silent drive.

The next morning, CIA analyst and former Marine Dr. Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) briefs U.S. government...
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