CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Baldwin) successfully deduces Ramius’ intentions and struggles to convince his superiors that Ramius is planning to defect before the American and Soviet forces engage one another in combat. Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius (Connery) plots a defection from the Soviet Union while commanding the Red October, a Typhoon-class equipped with a revolutionary magnetohydrodynamic drive that renders it nearly silent to sonar. While some minor differences arise between the film and novel, the general plot in the film is consistent with its novel counterpart. But today the game is different we have the advantage.” -Captain Marko Ramiusĭubbed by Ronald Reagan as the “perfect yarn”, Tom Clancy’s The Hunt For Red October (1984) began his career as a techno-thriller novelist and was adapted into a movie starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin in 1990. For forty years, your fathers before you, and your older brothers played this game, and played it well. “Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - the American Navy.
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