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The Hunt for Red October
Synopsis
The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and steers his sub Red October towards American waters, hoping to defect. The CIA, aware that the Red October was about to embark on an evasive mission to demonstrate its ability to avoid detection and fire its nuclear missiles upon U.S. installations, believes that Ramius is insane, and that he plans to start World War III. To cover their own behinds, the Russians back up the CIA's suspicion. Only Jack Ryan believes that Ramius' mission is not as apocalyptic as it seems -- and it is Ryan who is assigned to infiltrate the Red October to prove his theory. The sort of film that in an earlier era would have been called a thinking man's thriller, The Hunt for Red October ushered in a new series of Hollywood-produced post-Cold War adventure films, including 1995's Crimson Tide.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    John McTiernan,
  • Writer:
    Donald Stewart, Larry Ferguson,
  • Producer:
    Mace Neufeld, Jerry Sherlock,
  • Cinematographer:
    Jan de Bont,
  • Editor:
    Dennis Virkler, John Wright,
  • Executive Producer:
    Larry DeWaay, Jerry Sherlock,
  • Cast:
    Sam Neill, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sean Connery,
  • Assistant Editor:
    Michael Ruscio, Marcelo Sansevieri, John Haggar,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Jerry Ballew,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Steve Danton,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Cecelia Hall, George Watters II,
  • Camera Operator:
    Roger Gebhard,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Luca Kouimelis,
  • ADR Mixer:
    Bob Baron,
  • Construction Coordinator:
    Dennis DeWaay,
  • Construction Foreman:
    Steve Fegley,
  • Location Manager:
    Joel Marx, Stuart Neumann,
  • Production Sound Mixer:
    Richard Bryce Goodman,
  • Property Master:
    Tommy Tomlinson, Isidoro Raponi, Willard Livingston,
  • Sound Editor:
    F. Hudson Miller, Frank Howard, Bruce Fortune, John Benson,
  • Foley Editor:
    Victoria Martin,
  • Supervising ADR Editor:
    Juno J. Ellis,
  • Second Company Grip:
    David Canestro,
  • Wardrobe Supervisor:
    James W. Tyson,
  • Dolly Grip:
    Michael J. Coo,
  • Carpenter:
    Mike Sasgen,
  • Second Unit Director:
    Todd Turner, Beau Marks,
  • Visual Effects Art Director:
    Steve Beck,
  • Modeling:
    Mark Yuricich,
  • CG Artist:
    Steve 'Spaz' Williams, Scott E. Anderson,
  • Assistant Sound Editor:
    Donald Ortiz, Anne Couk,
  • Art Direction:
    Dianne Wager, Donald B. Woodruff, William Cruse,
  • Hairstylist:
    Dino Ganziano,
  • Cableman:
    Debbie Jo Grillo,
  • Extras Casting:
    Jimmy Jue,
  • Still Photographer:
    Bruce McBroom,
  • Casting:
    Amanda Mackey,
  • Stunts:
    Monty Cox, Shane Dixon, Ronnie Rondell Jr., Gary Epper, Steve Hulin, Carl Ciarfalio,
  • Transportation Coordinator:
    Myra Hill,
  • Rotoscoping Artist:
    Tom Bertino, Kathleen Beeler,
  • ADR Editor:
    Jay Kamen, Shelley Rae Hinton,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Wes Dawn, Jim Kail,
  • Second Unit Director of Photography:
    Alexander Witt,
  • Visual Effects Editor:
    David Bartholomew,
  • Special Effects Assistant:
    William Aldridge, Manuel S. Epstein, James Camomile, Jan Aaris,
  • Production Design:
    Terence Marsh,
  • Visual Effects Supervisor:
    Scott Squires, John Knoll,
  • Foley Mixer:
    Greg Curda,
  • Sound Effects:
    John P. Fasal,
  • Lighting Technician:
    Ed Ayer,
  • Costumer:
    Gary Sampson, Darryl M. Athons,
  • Screenplay:
    Larry Ferguson, Donald Stewart,
  • Novel:
    Tom Clancy,
  • Dolby Consultant:
    Douglas Greenfield,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Richard Overton, Kevin F. Cleary,
  • Second Unit First Assistant Director:
    J. Tom Archuleta,
  • Transportation Captain:
    Mike Fenster,
  • Production Supervisor:
    Joel Marx,
  • Driver:
    Michael Forte,
  • Graphic Designer:
    Joe A. Hawthorne,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Basil Poledouris,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Chuck Picerni Jr.,
  • Unit Production Manager:
    Beau Marks,
  • Foley Artist:
    David Lee Fein, Ken Dufva,
  • Set Decoration:
    Mickey S. Michaels,
  • CG Painter:
    Robert L. Clark,
  • First Company Grip:
    Larry J. Aube,
  • Visual Effects Production Assistant:
    Tim August,
  • Color Timer:
    Tom Shaffer,
  • Leadman:
    William F. Reinert,
  • Music Editor:
    Tom Villano,
  • crew.role.visual-effects.visual-effects-lineup:
    Michael Backauskas,
  • Foley Supervisor:
    Pamela Bentkowski,
  • Special Effects Coordinator:
    Al Di Sarro,
  • Painter:
    Ron Gress,
  • Orchestrator:
    Greig McRitchie,

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