The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Captain Marko Ramius	Sean Connery
Jack Ryan	Alec Baldwin
Commander Bart Mancuso	Scott Glenn	½
Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin	Sam Neill
Admiral James Greer	James Earl Jones
Dr. Jeffrey Pelt	Richard Jordan
Ivan Yurevich Putin	Peter Firth
Dr. Petrov	Tim Curry
Sonarman 2nd Class Ronald Jones	Courtney B. Vance
Captain Tupolev	Stellan Skarsgård	½
Oliver Wendell 'Skip' Tyler	Jeffrey Jones	½

Review

Nail-biting, delicately scripted underwater Cold War drama with all the good ingredients of a genre film, handled with care and deftness by a John McTiernan at the height of his career. Even though the film is stuck in the traditional mentality of its era and turns out to be a not too concealed America worship, it does handle its rather complex political and characterological material with subtlety and insight, making the film a satisfactory experience from more than one point of view. If you like classic Alistair MacLean, you'll certainly enjoy this film as well. A young and fresh Alec Baldwin (at the time he could still talk normally) delivers a sympathetic and active performance, whereas Sean Connery excels as the layered Captain Ramius, and the all-star supporting performers conclude an impressively acted piece.