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- The meaning of CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER is a risk or threat to safety or other public interests that is serious and imminent; especially : one that justifies limitation of a right (as freedom of speech or press) by the legislative or executive branch of government.
Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce [3] and based on Tom Clancy's 1989 novel of the same name. It is a sequel to The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Patriot Games (1992) and part of a series of films featuring Clancy's character Jack Ryan.
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Clear and Present Danger: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida. CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Phillip Noyce
- 1994-08-03
The meaning of CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER is a risk or threat to safety or other public interests that is serious and imminent; especially : one that justifies limitation of a right (as freedom of speech or press) by the legislative or executive branch of government.
A sequel to The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988), main character Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence in the Central Intelligence Agency, and discovers that he is being kept in the dark by his colleagues who are conducting a covert war against a drug cartel based in Colombia.
The clear and present danger test features two independent conditions: first, the speech must impose a threat that a substantive evil might follow, and second, the threat is a real, imminent threat. The court had to identify and quantify both the nature of the threatened evil and the imminence of the perceived danger.
Agent Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) becomes acting deputy director of the CIA when Admiral Greer (James Earl Jones) is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president...
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- Mystery & Thriller, Drama
- PG-13
Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President's "life-long" friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel.