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Thursday, September 13. 2018

Making of "The Hunt for Red October" - Behind the Scenes

It's one of the great movies - re-watchable.

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That and Das Boot.

#1 retriever on 2018-09-13 18:55 (Reply)

At the time, there was criticism of Connery's accent but that faded away. It is a bit of a mystery why Baldwin gave up on the series. I don't like him as a person and he was terribly miscast as Doolittle in "Pearl Harbor" but that was an awful movie anyway.

#2 Mike K (Link) on 2018-09-13 19:13 (Reply)

Baldwin ruins it for me, but it was great back in the day. Book is even better.

#3 UncleMax on 2018-09-13 20:16 (Reply)

Agree. I will read the book again.

#3.1 annieoakley on 2018-09-13 21:00 (Reply)

I was a bubblehead in the mid 70's and was amazed at how much information about sub ops was in this novel, openly.

#4 Brooks (Link) on 2018-09-13 21:04 (Reply)

I was on the "other side" of the air/water interface; I was flying P-3 Orion ASW aircraft. As a specialist in Soviet submarines, I was stunned to discover that Clancy hadn't been in the military and hadn't had any access to classified material.

I still have my "first edition" copy of the book; the one from the Naval Institute Press.

#4.1 Ken Mitchell (Link) on 2018-09-13 21:08 (Reply)

There was a bit of a flap about Clancy and security until they discovered he got all his info from open sources. The same applied to "Sum of All Fears" and he said he falsified a few things in the novel to conceal how easy it was to learn to build a bomb from open sources.

#4.1.1 Mike K (Link) on 2018-09-13 23:03 (Reply)

Baldwin is scum as a human being, and I don't think he was very good in the role. The book was great, and the movie was pretty good, but Baldwin sucked as Jack Ryan.

#5 Ken Mitchell (Link) on 2018-09-13 21:06 (Reply)

I disagree. I am not a fan of Alec Baldwin, hate his politics but as an actor in this particular movie, I thought he was brilliant. It was an understated style of acting which brought the character forward. He was not the super hero type and I think he played it just right. I also loved Sean Connery in it , maybe it was the accent. Sam Neill was great as well.

#6 Pocono pam on 2018-09-14 21:06 (Reply)

The family and I were discussing this movie the other day.
Time to watch it again.

#7 William on 2018-09-19 13:58 (Reply)

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