The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Movie Details

Original Title The Hunt for Red October

Original Language EN

Budget $30,000,000

Revenue $200,512,643

Status Released

Popularity 5.4

Cast

Sean Connery

Capt. 1st Marko Ramius

Popularity: 1.9

Alec Baldwin

Dr. Jack Ryan

Popularity: 2.1

Scott Glenn

CDR Bart Mancuso (USS Dallas)

Popularity: 9.6

Sam Neill

Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin

Popularity: 10.0

James Earl Jones

Vice ADM James Greer

Popularity: 2.3

Joss Ackland

Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

Popularity: 1.1

Richard Jordan

Dr. Jeffrey Pelt, National Security Advisor

Popularity: 9.7

Peter Firth

Capt. 2nd Ivan Putin (Political Officer, Red October)

Popularity: 1.1

Tim Curry

Dr. Yevgeni Petrov (Red October)

Popularity: 10.3

Courtney B. Vance

Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)

Popularity: 1.0

Stellan Skarsgård

Capt. 2nd Viktor Tupolev (V.K. Konovalov)

Popularity: 3.6

Jeffrey Jones

Skip Tyler

Popularity: 1.3

Key Crew

Editor John Wright, Dennis Virkler

Screenplay Donald E. Stewart, Larry Ferguson

Executive Producer Jerry Sherlock, Larry DeWaay

Producer Mace Neufeld

Director John McTiernan

Production

Paramount Pictures

Mace Neufeld/Jerry Sherlock Productions

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Keywords

based on novel or book submarine cold war intelligence u.s. navy defection jack ryan ex military 1980s political thriller nuclear submarine soviet/russian navy intelligence service suspenseful awestruck exhilarated cia analyst russian submarine intelligence analyst

Reviews from TMDB

Wuchak 7/10

May 30, 2023

**_Submarine strategies with Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and Scott Glenn_** Just before Gorbachev’s rise to power in the USSR, a notable naval commander (Connery) takes a technologically advanced submarine on its maiden voyage to conduct missile drills off of America's east coast. Something happ ... Read more

CinemaSerf 7/10

Jun 24, 2024

When British intelligence sends some photographs to CIA analyst "Jack Ryan" (Alec Baldwin) he immediately races to his boss (James Earl Jones) with what seems like a fantastic tale about a submarine that uses a hydro-dynamic drive. That renders it almost silent to traditional sonar and therefore a t ... Read more

kevin2019 8/10

May 9, 2025

"The Hunt for Red October" is an extremely well paced film throughout and it never leaves us in any doubt that Jack Ryan's assumptions about captain Marko Ramius are unfailingly correct and if anything could have sapped the interest and made this nothing more than an overlong and water logged exerci ... Read more