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Tense Cold War dramatisation of Tom Clancy's novel. The commander of a new, top-secret Soviet nuclear submarine burns his orders and sets a course for the east coast of America. A CIA analyst tries to establish whether or not his motives are hostile while both the Soviet and US fleets are trying frantically to track down the renegade submarine.

Keywords:

Action, Adventure, Thriller, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1990) (USA) (4 Star)

Cast:

Sean Connery	.... Captain Marko Ramius
Alec Baldwin	.... Jack Ryan
Scott Glenn	.... Commander Bart Mancuso
Sam Neill	.... Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin
James Earl Jones	.... Admiral James Greer
Joss Ackland	.... Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

Supporting Cast:

Richard Jordan	.... Dr. Jeffrey Pelt
Peter Firth	.... Political Officer Ivan Yurevich Putin
Tim Curry	.... Dr. Petrov
Courtney B. Vance	.... Sonarman 2nd Class Ronald Jones
Stellan Skarsgård	.... Captain Tupolev
Jeffrey Jones	.... Oliver Wendell 'Skip' Tyler
Timothy Carhart	.... Bill Steiner
Larry Ferguson	.... Chief of the Boat Watson
Fred Dalton Thompson	.... Rear Admiral Joshua Painter
Daniel Davis	.... Captain Charlie Davenport
Ned Vaughn	.... Seaman Beaumont
Anthony Peck	.... Lieutenant Commander Thompson
Mark Draxton	.... Seaman
Tom Fisher	.... Seaman

Directors:

John McTiernan

Writers:

Tom Clancy
Larry Ferguson