In the film 'The Hunt for Red October' what was 'Red October'?
"for Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing. On June 12, 1990, the original soundtrack, composed and conducted by Basil Poledouris, was released by MCA Records. ""The Hunt for Red October"" received mostly positive reviews from critics and was the 6th top-grossing film of the year, generating $122 million in North America and more than $200 million worldwide in box office business. The film was the first in a series involving the fictional character Jack Ryan, played additionally by Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, and John Krasinski. In November 1984, Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius commands , a new"
"The Hunt for Red October (console game) The Hunt for Red October is a video game based on the movie ""The Hunt for Red October"". It was first released in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Versions for the Game Boy and Super NES were subsequently released. The game featured deep sea combat, side-scrolling action, and cinematic sequences. The object is to evade destruction and eliminate saboteurs. The caterpillar drive is particularly useful for quietly escaping the enemy. The Super NES version is one of 11 games that uses the Super Scope accessory, though it is only used to play"
"for Red October"", Alec Baldwin and Gates McFadden, were unavailable. Baldwin had committed to perform in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" on Broadway. In 2011, Baldwin claimed the role was recast due to David Kirkpatrick forcing him to choose between performing in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" or agreeing to an open-ended clause relating to dates for the first sequel. Filming also took place at Aldwych underground station for a sequence later in the film. The numerous changes between the film and the novel caused Clancy to distance himself from the film production. Harrison Ford accidentally hit Sean Bean with a boat"
"unreleased end titles. ""The Hunt for Red October"" opened in 1,225 theaters on March 2, 1990, grossing $17 million on its opening weekend, more than half its budget. The film opened at number one at the U.S. box office and remained there for three weeks. Its opening was the 20th biggest weekend of all time and the biggest non-summer, non-Thanksgiving weekend to date. The film went on to gross $122,012,643 in North America with a worldwide total of $200,512,643. , the film held an 88% rating at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 69 critics. At Metacritic, which"
"""Red October"", guesses his former mentor's route and sets a course to intercept. The Soviet fleet's intentions are unknown to the U.S., although their orders are to sink ""Red October"". Due to the actions of an unknown saboteur, ""Red October""s caterpillar drive fails during risky maneuvers through a narrow undersea canyon. Petty Officer Jones, a sonar technician aboard ""Dallas"", has discovered a way to detect ""Red October"" using underwater acoustics, and plots an intercept course. Ryan arranges a hazardous mid-ocean rendezvous to board ""Dallas"", where he attempts to persuade its captain, Commander Bart Mancuso, to contact Ramius and determine his"
"who is part of the American arms negotiation team, travels to Moscow for the arms reduction talks. There he meets Gerasimov, and blackmails him into releasing Filitov and betraying his country; if his demands are not met, he will reveal what actually happened to the Soviet ballistic missile submarine ""Red October"" from months ago, which would disgrace the KGB chairman, who had used the incident to consolidate KGB’s control over the military. As counter-leverage should he refuse to defect, Gerasimov arranges for the kidnapping of Tea Clipper’s top SDI researcher, Major Alan Gregory. Gregory’s kidnapping was undertaken by KGB agent"
"Jerry Sherlock Jerry Sherlock (born August 18, 1933) is an American film and theater producer and educator known for such films as ""The Hunt for Red October"". He was also the founder of the New York Film Academy School of Film and Acting. He resides in New York City. Sherlock dropped out of school at the age of fourteen to join the carnival. From then on he was self-educated — he immersed himself in books published by the Modern Library, newspapers and magazines. After his time working with the circus he joined the United States Air Force, where he received"
"may have been due to the fact he studied these videotapes of Toti to prepare for the role. The Navy had been led to believe that the movie's storyline was going to be about a Trident submarine crew attempting to stop the ship's (fictional) computer from launching nuclear missiles and starting World War III. In movie parlance, the Navy was told the story would be """"Hunt for Red October"" meets """"."" The Navy wanted the ""Florida"" crew to prove to the studio executives that ""there is no computer on a Trident submarine that can launch missiles, hence the storyline is"
"at which point Ramius requests asylum for himself and his officers. ""Red October"" is suddenly attacked by ""V. K. Konovalov"", which has tracked them across the Atlantic. As the two Soviet subs maneuver, one of ""Red October""s cooks, Loginov, an undercover KGB agent and the secret saboteur, opens fire. He fatally wounds first officer Vasily Borodin before retreating to the nuclear missile bay, pursued by Ryan and Ramius. Loginov shoots Ramius, wounding him, but Ryan kills Loginov before he can detonate a missile. Meanwhile, ""Red October"" makes evasive maneuvers with a diversion provided by ""Dallas"", causing ""V. K. Konovalov"" to"
"Red Planet (film) Red Planet is a 2000 science fiction thriller film directed by Antony Hoffman, starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore. Released on November 10, 2000, it was a critical and commercial failure. The film was Hoffman's only feature film; he primarily directed television commercials. In 2056 A.D., Earth is in ecological crisis as a consequence of pollution and overpopulation. Automated interplanetary missions have been seeding Mars with atmosphere-producing algae as the first stage of terraforming the planet. When the oxygen quantity produced by the algae is inexplicably reduced, the crew of ""Mars-1"" investigate—a crew consisting of"
"""Arkhangelsk"" (Typhoon #5) TK-20 ""Severstal"" (Typhoon #6) Satellite photos Interior photos Probably the best-known fictional Typhoon-class submarine was the stealth equipped ""Red October"", the subject of the Tom Clancy novel ""The Hunt for Red October"" and its 1990 movie adaptation, starring Sean Connery as the fictional Captain Marko Ramius. The 2001 documentary ""Mission Invisible"" about the Russian submarine ""Severstal"" was produced by Corona Films for Discovery Channel with the participation of ZED, France 5, ZDF, RTBF, TV5 Monde and the Scottish Screen Fund. In 2008 National Geographic released a documentary about the scrapping of one of the Typhoons in the"
"next to him) to give orders while the ship was underway. (Ref. IMDB.com) In The Hunt for Red October, the scene for the flashing light sequence was filmed at sea off the coast of San Diego using ""Puffer"" and a Captain’s gig from one of the submarine tenders located at the Point Loma submarine base. A Mess Cook who knew Morse Code was given a script. The eyepiece was removed from the Number 2 periscope and a large flashlight was used since submarines do not have the capability. ""Puffer"" is not listed in the film credits. ""Puffer"" was decommissioned on"
"of the novels. It takes place in 2002, whereas the novel takes place in 1991/1992. ""Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit"" is a second reboot of the franchise that departs from all previous films. The Hunt for Red October (1990) is set in 1984. Central Intelligence Agency analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) must track down the ""Red October"", a technologically superior Soviet nuclear submarine heading to America's east coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), and prove to the American government his theory that the sub's mission is to defect rather than attack the American coast. After being boarded"
"The October Man The October Man is a 1947 mystery film/film noir starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, written by novelist Eric Ambler, who also produced. A man is suspected of murder, and due to the lingering effects of a brain injury sustained in an earlier accident and after intense police investigation, he himself begins to doubt whether he is innocent or not. When a bus crashes due to faulty steering, passenger Jim Ackland (John Mills) sustains a serious brain injury and a young girl under his care is killed. Guilt ridden, he attempts suicide twice during his recovery. He"
"June 2002, ""Wadsworth"" was handed over to Poland the same day and commissioned as , after Tadeusz Kościuszko an American Revolutionary War hero in the United States and an independence hero in Poland. She was formally stricken from the Navy list on 23 July 2002. ""Wadsworth"" portrayed in the 1990 film ""The Hunt for Red October"". The ship's motto was ""For One's Country"" and originates from the words of Captain Isaac Hull, Commanding Officer of before her August 1812 battle with HMS ""Guerriere"". Hull said, ""Men, now do your duty. Your officers cannot have entire command over you now. Each"
"morning, CIA analyst and former Marine, Jack Ryan, after consulting with Vice Admiral James Greer, briefs government officials on ""Red October"" and the threat it poses. The U.S. fears Ramius plans an unauthorized nuclear strike. They also learn that the bulk of the Soviet Navy has been deployed to the Atlantic to find and sink the renegade vessel. In the briefing, Ryan hypothesizes that Ramius instead plans to defect. He is ordered to rendezvous with the ""Dallas"" - still searching for ""Red October"" since their initial detection of it - to prove his theory. Meanwhile, Tupolev, though unable to track"
"detailed explanation of how and why World War III could begin involves oil shortages in the Soviet Union caused by Islamic terrorism within it. ""The Hunt for Red October"" (1984) hypothesized that the Soviet Union’s technology would soon be better than the Americans', depicting a naval buildup in the Atlantic Ocean after the CIA decides to rescue a highly-advanced Typhoon-class submarine defecting from the Soviet Union. ""Red Storm Rising"" was a detailed account of the coming world war. In ""Red Storm Rising"", the Soviets decide to seize Middle Eastern oil reserves to prevent crippling energy shortages after an Islamist terrorist"
"With newfound knowledge of a mysterious KGB assassin codenamed Zenith, Ryan disputes the conclusion that the RAF are responsible for the killings, and further deduces that Zenith might be tasked by rogue elements within the KGB, who are stealing money from the agency, by eliminating the victims in order to cover their tracks. The mystery of Zenith was then left unsolved for thirty years. Captain First Rank Marko Ramius, the Soviet Navy's top submarine commander, takes command of the ""Красный Октябрь"" (""Krasny Oktyabr"", or in English, ""Red October""), the newest Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine, with which he plans to defect"
"test of time"". In contrast, ""Newsweek""s David Ansen wrote, ""But it's at the gut level that ""Red October"" disappoints. This smoother, impressively mounted machine is curiously ungripping. Like an overfilled kettle, it takes far too long to come to a boil"". Vincent Canby, writing for ""The New York Times"", opined that ""the characters, like the lethal hardware, are simply functions of the plot, which in this case seems to be a lot more complex than it really is"". ""The Hunt for Red October"" was nominated and won several awards in 1991. In addition, the film was also nominated for AFI's"
"The Red-Haired Alibi The Red-Haired Alibi is an American pre-Code feature-length film produced by Tower Productions. The film was produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Released on October 15, 1932, it was directed by Christy Cabanne. The movie was based on a novel of the same name written by Wilson Collison. It is the first feature-length film to feature child actress Shirley Temple in the credits. A young woman seeks employment with a pleasant and charming man in Manhattan, only to learn over time that he's a gangster. After his crimes escalate to murder, police urge her to leave him in order"
"Brosowski had hidden a Red Banner he received from the miners in Krivoi Rog. The Banner itself was kept as a symbol of Soviet-German friendship. Maetzig's film was commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. The film was viewed by 2,772,000 people in the two months from its release until the end of 1967, with 750,000 of them in the first two weeks; that figure also included those who saw it in mandatory screenings in collective farms and schools. It became the second most popular East German film of the year, after ""Chingachgook, the Great Snake"". Maetzig, writer"
"Red Mountain (film) Red Mountain is a 1951 Western historical film, starring Alan Ladd, set in the last days of the US Civil War. The plot centers on an attempt by Quantrill's Raiders to stir up rebellion in the West. Colorado, 1865: A gold assayer is killed and Lane Waldron is seen leaving, so a posse goes after him and turns into a lynch mob. Lane claims he had a sample from his mine examined by the assayer, but denies shooting him. A noose around Lane's neck is shot in half at the last second by an unseen marksman. The"
"October"" popularized the magnetohydrodynamic drive as a ""caterpillar drive"" for submarines, a nearly undetectable ""silent drive"" intended to achieve stealth in submarine warfare. In reality, the current traveling through the water would create gases and noise, and the magnetic fields would induce a detectable magnetic signature. In the novel from which the film was adapted, the caterpillar that ""Red October"" used was actually a pumpjet of the so-called ""tunnel drive"" type (the tunnels provided acoustic camouflage for the cavitation from the propellers). In the Ben Bova novel, ""The Precipice,"" the ship where some of the action took place, ""Starpower 1,"""
"wall of the exhibit denoting it as such. In the 1984 Tom Clancy novel ""The Hunt for Red October"", ""Pogy"" and the attack submarine escort the fictitious defecting Soviet Navy ballistic missile submarine ""Red October"". However, ""Pogy"" is not mentioned or depicted in the 1990 film ""The Hunt for Red October"" adapted from the novel. USS Pogy (SSN-647) USS ""Pogy"" (SSN-647), a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pogy, or menhaden. The contract to build ""Pogy"" was awarded on 23 March 1963, and her keel was laid down on 5 May"
"and US Marine veteran who finds his own life in jeopardy after stumbling across a political cover-up over a Middle Eastern terrorist plan to release toxic gas and kill thousands of people. The primary terrorist group in the film is the fictional group Black October, in reference to Black September. The film was shot in Israel and Lundgren stayed at the famous King David Hotel. Although the film was not a major success, former Research Fellow at Australia's National Film & Sound Archive Robert Cettl, in his 2009 book ""Terrorism in American cinema: an analytical filmography, 1960–2008"" argues that the"
"Red (2010 film) Red is a 2010 American action comedy film based on the limited comic-book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage. The film stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, and Karl Urban, with German film director Robert Schwentke directing a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber. In the film version, the title is derived from the designation of former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), meaning ""Retired, Extremely Dangerous"". The film was released on October 15,"
"of German Autumn–era terrorists take over the skyscraper. The gang is led by the brutal Anton ""Little Tony the Red"" Gruber. Joe had known about Gruber through a counter-terrorism conference he had attended years prior. Barefoot, Leland slips away and manages to remain undetected in the gigantic office complex. Aided outside only by Los Angeles Police sergeant Al Powell and armed with only his police-issue pistol, Leland fights off the terrorists one by one in an attempt to save the 74 hostages, including his daughter and grandchildren. The terrorists plan to steal documents that will publicly expose the Klaxon corporation's"
"won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet. Tom Clancy, author of the 1984 novel ""The Hunt for Red October"", was given a brief ride into port aboard ""Hammerhead"" in the late 1980s prior to the filming of the 1990 film adaptation of the novel, also entitled ""The Hunt for Red October"". After spotting a mounted roll of toilet paper in ""Hammerhead""s sonar room used for wiping grease pencil markings off the screens in the rooms, he proclaimed his intention to write the contrasting image of the low-technology toilet paper mount among all of the complicated electronics"
"officials. In response to the House investigations, most studios produced a number of anti-communist and anti-Soviet propaganda films such as ""The Red Menace"" (August 1949), ""The Red Danube"" (October 1949), ""The Woman on Pier 13"" (October 1949), ""Guilty of Treason"" (May 1950, about the ordeal and trial of Cardinal József Mindszenty), ""I Was a Communist for the FBI"" (May 1951, Academy Award nominated for best documentary 1951, also serialized for radio), ""Red Planet Mars"" (May 1952), and John Wayne's ""Big Jim McLain"" (August 1952). Universal-International Pictures was the only major studio that did not produce such a film. On July"
"work as a translator. The will of fate landed a role in a movie The Hunt for Red October. In this film, he starred in a cameo the midshipman and received three days of shooting 40,000 dollars. He was divorced. A daughter Anastasia. Herman Sinitzyn Herman Sinitzyn (; February 1, 1940, Chișinău – June 25, 2016, Los Angeles) was a Russian and American actor. Artist blues on blues harmonica. A member of the Screen Actors Guild. Herman Sinitsyn was born in Chișinău in 1940. After moving with his family to Leningrad, he served in the army and entered the Leningrad"
"Red (2016 film) Red is a short dark thriller set in the underground world of illegal organ smuggling, the so-called red market. It's the directing debut of Branko Tomovic who is probably best known in the US for playing Jack Bauer's sidekick in the recent ""24: Live Another Day"" series and stars British actress Francesca Fowler (Doctor Who, Rome, Closure) with the acclaimed Irish actress Dervla Kirwan (Ondine, Ballykissangel, The Silence, Doctor Who) as the sadistic and cruel crime boss. A damaged and guilt-ridden man who works in the underground world of illegal organ smuggling is looking for a way"
"October Sky October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern. It is based on the true story of Homer H. Hickam, Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of ""Sputnik 1"" in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually became a NASA engineer. ""October Sky"" is based on the lives of four young men who grew up in Coalwood, West Virginia. Most of the film was shot in rural East Tennessee, including Oliver Springs, Harriman and Kingston"
"physical power in solving a particular crisis. From a young age, Clancy was an avid reader of naval history and sea exploration. However, he was later rejected from serving in the military because of his poor eyesight. Since graduating from high school and eventually earning an English major, he always wanted to write a novel. He eventually worked as an insurance agent for a small business owned by his then-wife's family. In his spare time, Clancy started working on ""The Hunt for Red October"" on November 11, 1982, and finished it four months later on February 23, 1983. Contrary to"