The frigate shown when the "Red October" surfaces is not the real U. Reuben James, an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate with hull number Gary, hull number 51, portrayed Reuben James and also provided some of the engine room shots of "Red October.
The ship escorting the "Red October" out of port is the U. Gates McFadden only took the very small part of Cathy Ryan because she was told that in Patriot Games , the role would be heavily expanded. This would come to pass in Patriot Games , but McFadden was replaced due to the fact that Alec Baldwin refused to reprise his role due to financial disagreements.
Consequently, the producers wanted both characters played by a new actor and actress. James Earl Jones is the only actor to appear in the following two Jack Ryan films. Marco Ramius says the line "A little revolution now and then, is a healthy thing. Don't you think? Jefferson wrote it as "A little revolution now and then, is a good thing. Jack Ryan Alec Baldwin and Captain Marko Ramius Sir Sean Connery , despite being the two leads, do not come face-to-face until over one hour and fifty minutes into this movie.
This probably left McTiernan with a sense of being there before, as he was unable to direct Die Hard 2 , due to working on this movie. The role was subsequently played by Keira Knightley , who is English, with an American accent. Factual errors: The Typhoon is a N. The Russian name for the class is "Akula class. However, since this is a fictional movie based on a fictional novel, anything is possible.
Tom Clancy's novel "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" is a direct sequel to this story. A brief, lightly digitally altered shot from this movie was used as a sight gag in an episode of the sitcom 30 Rock , in which Alec Baldwin had a starring role. The premise of the joke was that Baldwin's character, Jack Donaghy, is trying to quell Tina Fey's character Liz Lemon's anxiety about hosting her own talk show for the first time.
They perform a test with a high definition camera, which is unflattering or comical for most of the people who step in front of it: Lemon's minor facial flaws are severely exaggerated on the high-def monitor; downtrodden producer Pete appears to the camera as a naked man a few decades older than his actual age; and happy-go-lucky page Kenneth appears on the monitor as a Muppet. But Jack appears in high-def as a twenty-years-younger Alec Baldwin, thanks to several seconds of footage from this movie being broadcast on the monitor.
In the scene with the frigate "Ruben James," a second frigate was used during the filming. Wadsworth F. The Wadsworth's hull number 9 is clearly visible in a couple of scenes. Far from being a stray a pilot experiencing navigation or control problems , Belenko had deliberately defected to the United States.
His out-of-print biography has become a rare book, now mostly read as an illicit e-book. The novel, which this movie is based on, went into more detail about the U. Dallas computer system as she was retrofitted with the "then latest" 64 bit computer system which was able to detect, store and recognize in its memory the individual sounds of different Soviet subs.
This mirrored the real life U. Dallas which at the time of her commission, in July of , she was the only Los Angeles class fast attack submarine to feature an all digital combat systems suite. Natalia Ramius died on November 23, In the movie, the time the U. In the Tom Clancy novel, the story unfolds over several more days. Tim Curry Dr. Petrov played the iconic evil clown Pennywise in Stephen King's It The film takes place in November The US Navy destroyer, U.
Reuben James, featured in the climax is the namesake of the U. The real-life U. Dallas SSN completed her final deployment on November 22nd, and decommissioned a year later on December 5th, At the time of her retirement, the U. Dallas was in service for 36 years. While entering the D. This seems to be a failed attempt at a joke that is often told by military service members both inside and outside the intelligence community who like to say that "military intelligence" is a contradiction in terms.
Richard Jordan was the second choice for Dr. Jeffery Pelt, the National Security Adviser. The role was first offered to an Irish actor. The trailer was narrated by Don LaFontaine. In this movie, she plays a doctor, whose husband is sent to the real U. Navy aircraft carrier, U. If Kevin Costner had not turned down the role of Jack Ryan, he would have reunited with his The Untouchables co-star Sir Sean Connery on this movie, as well as The Presidio , in which he was considered for the role of Jay Austin.
Carl Schenkel was the original choice as a director, but he refused because he didn't want to direct a movie with an all-male cast. The subsequent film adaptation directed by and starring Clint Eastwood does not mention the incident of a defecting MiG pilot, though the original novel does on a few occasions. When he's asked what books he's written for the CIA, Jack mentions a biography of William Halsey called "The Fighting Sailor," which is the book he's in the middle of trying to write when he's first introduced in the novel.
Though no official cause of what happened is known, as it went down with all hands, circumstantial evidence suggests that the boat sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile at Pearl Harbor; it's rumored that a group of high-ranking KGB officials, fearing for the Soviet Union's survival, placed a contingent of special forces commandos, known as the OZNAZ, onboard in an attempt to start a nuclear war between the United States and China, which the sub's captain prevented by scuttling it.
And while the boat is never mentioned by name, the K incident is alluded to in the "Red October" novel; at one point, a passing mention is made of a submarine that the Soviets lost and which was salvaged off the coast of Hawaii. Alec Baldwin and Jeffrey Jones appeared in Beetlejuice Rip Torn was announced for this movie. The first of three films in which Sam Neill 's character is connected to Montana the second was Jurassic Park Sally Ryan was born in Thompson as D.
Vance played A. Several of the cast have strong links to the espionage genre. Sam Neill appeared in Jurassic Park with all of those actors except Sim, whose brother-in-law was Richard Attenborough. Cameo Tom Clancy : One of the personnel on the deck of the U. Reuben James. John McTiernan Sr. Spoilers The trivia items below may give away important plot points. In the novel, Borodin survives.
In fact, he wasn't shot at all. Conversely, Kamarov dies in the novel, but lives in this movie. Grant is introduced while leading a dinosaur dig in Montana. In The Horse Whisperer Neill's character Robert McLean travels Montana for meeting his wife Annie and his daughter Grace, who traveled there before to help Grace in her rehab after to fall of a horse.
Storyline Edit. In November , at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union creates a new nuclear submarine that runs silent due to a revolutionary propulsion system. His goal is taking it to the U. Did you know Edit. Trivia Sir Sean Connery spent time underway aboard the U. Puffer S. He was given Commander status, and allowed to give commands while underway with the Captain beside him. Goofs The crew of the Konovalov is shown to include petty officers and seamen, but a real Alfa class submarine is crewed entirely by officers.
This may not have been known in the West at the time of filming. Quotes Jeffrey Pelt : Listen, I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Crazy credits Stanley Sally Ryan's stuffed bear is credited as "Himself". However, on subsequent home video releases, the word "fucking" is replaced by "Goddamn. Aleksandrov Lyrics by Gabriel Ureklyan as G. El-Reghistan and Sergey Mikhalkov as S. User reviews Review. Top review. A great submarine movie.
Fortuneately, this movie is not entirely true to Tom Clancy's vision and book. Tom Clancy is an American superpatriot and nationalist. He loves to gush about the superiority of the American military establishment and its high technology.
This movie puts a more sympathetic face on the Russians and the commoner's point of view. Sean Connery plays a very likable Russian Submarine Commander. Of course, Sean Connery is always going to steal the show in any movie. He's kind of like the John Wayne of the last twenty five years. But the supporting actors are also engaging as well. These actors always give strong, interesting, and dynamic performances. With all the high technology and military hardware in this movie it is interesting to note how a simple seaman an enlisted man at that!
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