Patriot Games (film)
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Academy Award Sound Effects Editing 1991 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Sound 1991 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1991 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor in a Leading Role 1991 · Nominated
Academy Award Sound 1991 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Production Design 1991 · Nominated
The Hunt for Red October. Jump to. 3 wins & 8 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1991 Nominee Oscar. Best Sound. Richard Bryce Goodman. Richard Overton. Kevin F. Cleary. Don J. Bassman. 1991 Nominee Oscar. Best Film Editing. Dennis Virkler. John Wright. 1991 Winner Oscar. Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing. Cecelia Hall. George Watters II.
The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 American submarine spy thriller film directed by John McTiernan, produced by Mace Neufeld, and starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, and Sam Neill. The film is an adaptation of Tom Clancy 's 1984 bestselling novel of the same name.
Mar 2, 1990 · The Hunt for Red October: Directed by John McTiernan. With Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill. In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub.
- (215K)
- Action, Adventure, Thriller
- John McTiernan
- 1990-03-02
- Even though the novel had been a bestseller, nobody wanted to make the movie. Tom Clancy's book is a complicated story with a lot of technical jargon, which made Hollywood executives antsy.
- Some people thought it might flop because, in the time it took to get the movie made, the Cold War had basically ended. The film is set in 1984, which is when the novel was published and when tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were high.
- Sean Connery was a last-minute replacement. The film had been under production for two weeks when word came that Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa), the Austrian actor who'd been signed to play the rogue Soviet sub commander Marko Ramius, couldn't do it after all because of a prior commitment.
- Connery almost turned the movie down because of a fax error. "I had reservations about it," Connery told an Associated Press reporter upon the film's release.
The Hunt for Red October is the debut novel by American author Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984, by the Naval Institute Press.
Perfectly cast and packed with suspense, The Hunt for Red October is an old-fashioned submarine thriller with plenty of firepower to spare. Read Critics Reviews
- (76)
- Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
- PG
Mar 2, 1990 · Silent. Stolen. Overview. A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack.
