This movie has one of my favorite movie quotes about politicians ever: “I’m a politician, which means I’m a cheat and a liar, and when I’m not kissin’ babies, I’m stealin’ their lollipops.”

Sam Neil shared a story about Sean Connery in this movie. He explained that Connery's famous Scottish accent was very recognizable even though he was supposed to be Russian. The director got him vocal coaches, lots of practice at the accent and multiple takes, but none of it was working. Finally Sean Connery got fed up with it and exclaimed angrily to the director "You don't understand! I'm Sean Fucking Connery! You'll hire an entire Scottish crew so I'll blend in!"

I think one of the most poignant descriptions of the Cold War was by Ramius in this film: "A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties."

And Sam Neill's last words are " I would liked to have seen Montana" and the same actor's first scend in Jurrasic Park is set in Montana

Mark 6:24. Connery saying, "You have the conn." is funny! 😆 It's also funny when I'm viewing the video, and I get notifications about replies to this video from you guys, and suddenly, I have two separate windows open on the same video. That's never happened to me before! 😆

Actually the first submarine was actually used during the Revolutionary War. A submarine called the Turtle a one man submersible attempted and failed to attack the HMS Eagle in New York harbor. The sub attempted to attach a gunpowder torpedo to the hull but failed.

Mark 26:40. Haha! His "Jurassic Park" character is found in Montana! 😃

When Dasha reacted to this flick, she said most of the spoken Russian was poorly done. Alec Baldwin, Sean Connery and the Russian sailor that greeted them at the ladder got their Russian right.

Cool factoid the Senator is played by Richard Jordan. He's been in two other scifi movies in the past. He was in Logan's Run as Francis 6 and Duncan Idaho in the original dune movie from 1984. After this movie came out Tom Clancy got a visit from the CIA about how he got the Soviet sub controls right. Oh the Enterprise carrier has been retired but there are plans to make the next Ford Class carrier to be called Enterprise. Its designation will be CVN 80. In my honest opinion there should always be a ship in the US Navy called Enterprise.

Sean Connery does his own Scottish accent in EVERY role! 😁

When this movie came out my sons were in high school. They and many of their friends were so excited. They all read the book and even standing in line for the movie they were reading as fast as they could. Great movie, I’ve watched many times.

The CSA Hunley was a submarine used by the confederacy during the civil war. She was lunched on February 17 1864 & lost the same day. She was found in 2000 & now is persevered in a museum. She was raised in August of 2000. Another historic moment is the raising of the Union Ironclad USS Monitor. They raise the turret & engine of the ship. The remains of the ship are still on the ocean floor.

CSS Hunley 1864 ... first two crews drown during trials. Third crew successfully made the first submarine kill on USS Housatonic but the spar-torpedo blast killed them too. Sub was found and raised in 2000, complete autopsy showed the crew died instantly from hemorrhage caused by the shock wave.

My favorite line from this movie is when Ramius asks Ryan "You parle ruski" (You speak Russian.) Jack replies in Russian "A little. It is wise to study the ways of ones adversary. Don't you think?" and Ramius replies in English "It is"

Rainbow 6 refers to the team name from the book the games were originally based off. They were called "Rainbow" because they came from all over the world. The "6" is the leader, John Clark. Remember in Band of Brothers when Winters tells Luz to use the radio in one scene, you hear Luz say Easy 6 calling Easy CP. He was saying Easy Leader calling command.

19:55, love this moment when the Admiral tells the Captain of the Enterprise, chill he is one of us. Ryan just never got his chance to serve in uniform. But he is still out here doing his part.

24:30 no, they were really shooting at them. But they brought the submarine so close to the rock wall, it confused the torpedo and it hit the wall instead of the ship. The crewman is panicking, so to calm things down, Sam Neils character pulls a story. But the reality was, Sean Connery's character just saved everyones life with a risky manouver that paid off. :)

"The waves bow to him." - I love you guys. lol.

When this novel first came out, I and a friend of mine, worked at one of the three letter, Intel agencies. One day a delegation from the joint chiefs of staff was being given a tour through the SCIF. One of the admirals in the party noticed that my friend had a copy of the novel on his desk and turn to his colleagues, and said “why, I see that this young man is cleared for the highest materials”.

There was a old spoof of this movie titled "Going Under" where in some places it was translated to "The Hunt for Pink November" (1991). Movie was really silly. I would recommend though to watch "Down Periscope" - a submarine comedy starring Kelsey Grammer (1996).

If you want to see one of the GREATEST, if not THE greatest submarine movie, Das Boot (The Boat) about a WWII Uboat and its daily life experience during WWII. The Book was written from the author's experiences aboard a Uboat, and the Book was dramatized in to the movie.

I was a teen when this came out and lived on a Navy base. When this came out the theater was standing room only for a while.

Guys, hi! Bram Stoker and Mary Shelly are two people who participated in a bet competition that resulted in his "Dracula" novel and her novel, "Frankenstein". I don't recall the others. Well, inspired by that, some people came up with a competition to make submarine movies. "The Abyss" and this movie are two of the results. I don't recall the others. 🤔

Tom Clancy is a serious authority on military, politics and espionage. The Sum of All Fears has a great audio commentary by him and the director and Tom points out EVERYTHING the director got wrong and why. And he debunks surveillance capabilities of the nature "If he farts we'll know when and for how long". Intel is not that detailed nor does it need to be. What the enemy is up to is far more obvious and not the big secret movies have taught us and much of it can be discovered without hidden microphones or cameras.

Mark 16:28. Aha! You know that they're being emotional when they begin smoking within the confines of a submarine! It makes the air scrubbers work extra hard to be rid of the smoke!

Richard Jordan was great as Jeffrey Pelt. This was one of his last film roles, he would pass 3 years later (1993) of brain cancer at age 56. Such a loss. - Tom Clancy’s FIRST Novel (and first one filmed, 1990). Alec Baldwin was unknown actor for films, this introduced him to public. Sam Neill would follow this film with Jurassic Park (1993). John McTiernan (director) filmed this after Die Hard !

Fun facts!: The transition from the characters speaking their native language to English is also Clear And Present Danger. The novel Hunt For Red October was published before Patriot Games, though in a timeline of events they are the other way. This movie not only has James Bond, it also has Darth Vader!

The 1911 was desibned as a one-shot man stopper for specific use against fanatic bandits in the Philipine Islands after other side arms proved ineffective. It was my duty side arm while in the Navy. Good job guys!

The U.S.S Enterprise is the first Nuclear powered aircraft carrier as well the name of the first moonraker and clipper ship!

As usual, the books are So much better than the movies.. After watching the movie I got into a deep dive of Tom Clancy's novels. Man they were fantastic to be honest. I had the honor of meeting him one day in 94. Rest in Peace. I had just finished reading "Without Remorse". We spoke mainly about that book because I grew up not far from many of the places he wrote about. I was amazed at the level of details of my part of town so vividly. His memories were that precise. Sadly, the movie version was nearly unfamiliar to most everything in the novel. Red October is a really good film though. Although so many pieces had to be cut or changed from Clancy's work

There was a sub used in the Revolutionary war also. Basically, two wooden kegs connected together and a man sitting inside.

Mark 5:42. The text is... USS DALLAS LOS ANGELES CLASS ATTACK SUB 100 MILES NORTHWEST OF POLIJARNY INLET That would be in the periphery of the Atlantic Ocean. ⚓️

Okay, gents. I know the last thing you need is more recommendations, but, since you like submarine movies, here are a couple that are damned good. 1. Das Boot (pronounced "boat"). Very realistic WWII movie on a German sub. It's nothing less than f#cking amazing! 2. Ice Station Zebra. Cool, plot-twisty cold-war thriller that I absolutely love! (Stars Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, and British actor Patrick McGoohan (who starred in the British TV show The Prisoner--which I recommended elsewhere and is a MUST SEE program as well!)

As an additional side-note, this was before the common usage of CGI in films... almost all of the under water submarine footage was done with miniatures & models

Gave him straight up the Stewie Griffin head turn when he started humming along with the anthem. "COMMIE!!!"

the guy playing cheif of the boat -C.O.B. is the director of the movie

Mark 43:12. Hey! You showed us the plush bear, but not the wife and child! Cheryl Gates McFadden got to be the wife/mother in this movie because she had been let go from her role in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as "Doctor Beverly Howard Crusher, MD"! So she got to do a few movies before they brought her back into the fold! 🖖 When Harrison Ford takes over, the wife is played by actress Ann Archer, and the daughter is new too. Alec Baldwin makes a good Superhero too as a live-action version of "The Shadow"! I got so used to his looks as the host of "Match Game" that I forgot that he used to look like he does in this movie! 😂

Sean Connery gave the most important advice of Alec Baldwin's career in this movie. " Be careful, Most things in here don't react well to bullets".

Fun fact...McTiernan uses a somewhat similar language trick in his later film The 13th Warrior, which is definitely underrated and worth reacting to. It involves Norsemen and is a movie I am almost positive you will all love. And something to keep in mind about the Ramius character's Scottish accented Russian...the character was born and raised Lithuanian, and for all we know, Lithuanians could sound Scottish when they speak Russian. Probably not...but it is certainly a fine explanation for why Connery's standard Scottish lilt is not an issue at all. LOL And let me tell you, if you guys really like the Jonesy character, in the book that character is ten times cooler than in the film...IMHO. 👍

Other movies about the Cold War I hope you guys watch are Fail Safe (1964) and No Way Out (1987).

A "modern" submarine film comparable to this one is "Hunter Killer," a 2018 film starring Gerard Butler as the commander of a Virginia class submarine conducting missions near Russia in present day.

There was no one on Remeus's side. The torpedo was intended to kill them, but it was his skill that saved them. The "If they really were shooting at us we would be dead by now" statment was just a story for the crew.

Great submarine warfare movies: Run Silent, Run Deep; The Enemy Below; Das Boot.

When the bomber dropped the torpedo they were trying to kill them, no friends involved. It was Captain Rameus's skill that kept them alive. The story of if Soviet Fleet really wanted to kill them they would be dead was just a cover story for the crew.

I read somewhere that it takes like five missile keys to launch nukes on a Russian boat. They don't / didn't trust their people. Still, the closing lines of the HRO novel are thought provoking. Admiral Greer meets Jack as he disembarks, and Jack hands him the Red October's missile keys. "You can end the world with those".

Sam Neill's next movie was Jurassic Park. His character, Alan Grant, was living in Montana.

Fun fact: Tim Curry is the son of Royal Navy Chaplain. Other submarine/underwater movies worth watching are Das Boot and The Abyss (the Director's Cut completely changes the the film). The other Jack Ryan movies are 'Patriot Games', 'Clear And Present Danger' (starring Harrison Ford) and 'The Sum of All Fears' (starring Ben Affleck).

The character Jack Ryan eventually becomes president. Last I heard they are turning the movie Debt of Honor into a film where the US is attacked by a newly nuclear capable Japan.

The Hunt for Red October is based in part on the true story of Chester M. "Whitey" Mack (1931-2008), who was the first commander of the Sturgeon-class attack submarine USS Lapon in the late 1960s. (His nickname isn't a racial thing, but a reference to his hair color.) When the Russians launched their new Yankee-Class nuclear missile submarines in 1969, the US Navy had no idea of their capabilities. Along with other subs, Whitey Mack and Lapon headed for the Barents Sea with orders to learn what they could about the Yankee-Class boats. The Lapon found a Yankee on the sonar, lost track of it, estimated where it would be, found it again, and then followed it for 47 days straight. They learned everything the US Navy wanted to know about the boat and its practices, even recognizing when different officers were running the sub. A New York Times story at the time leaked the juicy news that the US Navy was actively shadowing a Soviet sub, and for 24 hours afterwards the Soviet skipper went nuts, doing every kind of possible maneuver to make sure nobody was following him, but he never detected the Lapon. Although the term "Crazy Ivan" didn't appear until 1970, it refers to a sub making abrupt turns in order to see whether anything is in its baffles, the blind zone hidden behind the sub's own engine and propeller noise. When the Lapon finally broke off to return home, the Navy sent a message to all subs in the Atlantic: "Get out of the way. Whitey's coming through." On returning home to Norfolk, the Lapon was awarded the Presidential Unit Commendation for extraordinary heroism, and Mack received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest peace-time award the Navy had. Basil Poledouris's score in this film is epic and beautiful, and gets the heart racing at all the right moments. Since you also watch classic Star Trek, you might find it interesting that Basil played a red-shirt in several episodes. I think he was one of the security team killed by the cloud creature in the episode "Obsession" from December 1967.

Thumb Up #56! 👍 You're welcome! Thanks! 😊 Notes: I read the novel because of the movie. My copy had the movie poster as the book cover. Paperback, I guess. "Flight of the Intruder" I also read because of the movie. In the novel, it is more apparent that it is about Jack Ryan's friend, whereas in the movie, you wouldn't know it! 😉

I hope you show these guys the movies House Of Games (1994), Boiler Room (2000), and Maverick (1994). Maybe they'll learn some lessons that will teach them to be cautious.

10:52 The microphones that submarines use to listen for sounds in the ocean are 1) Not pointing backwards, because 2) Even if they were, all they'll hear is their own propellor. There's a way around this: You can drag along microphones on a tow cable a few hundred feet behind you, but you get penalties in maneuvering and speed when you string out that towed array.

Fun fact. This movie is based on Tom Clancy's book. And in the book the Americans did one more impressive stunt making the Soviets look like complete fools. They took a part of nuclear missile from The Red October and the men operating an american rescue sub took a Soviet general to the bottom of the ocean to the supposed wreakage of The Red October. While there, the operator of rescue sub took out the real part from the basket under his sub and made it look like he picked it up from the bottom. And the presented it to the general who reported to the government of USSR that he have seen it himself that this part was on the bottom of the ocean. And also after the American took everything out from The Red October, the bare hull was sunk in this very place.

What could be considered a 'modern' take of this movie, is Hunter-Killer from 2019 I believe. It is highly recommend.

The movie takes place in the early 1980's. I was serving aboard a Knox class frigate at the time as a Quartermaster. Unlike in other branches a Quartermaster in the Navy is someone who specializes in navigation. We were an anti submarine warfare platform. We hunted submarines. This was set in the North Atlantic which is unofficially considered America's ocean. One thing that makes me laugh is that the Soviet surface fleet gets underway immediately. It would take us a minimum of two days to get steam pressure up high enough to get underway. Also, at this time, the side arm of the U.S. Navy is the Colt 45, so you guys are absolutely correct it is the M1911 Colt 45. Also also the submarines and the carriers hey do much attention but it's the frigates and destroyers that protect the carriers from the submarines.

There were lots of details in the book that obviously couldn’t be squeezed into a two-hour film. The screenwriter did a great job of boiling down the book to a fantastically tight script that does retain a lot of the book’s plot. Some of the stuff that didn’t make it: the Americans were on board with Jack much earlier and they put a very elaborate decoy strategy into play, including a faux Red October that they really did blow up, the trip back to America from the spot in the Atlantic where the Russian crew was offloaded onto US Navy ships lasted days and the saboteur wasn’t discovered until midway through that journey, and when the Russian crew was brought back to the US before being returned to the Soviets, the US seeded their “escorts” with Russian-speaking experts in persuading Soviets to defect, so that a few of the lowest-ranking decided to stay behind in America. In later books, we find out that Jones went into the private sector and made a mint working for defense contractors, and Ramius ended up living in retirement in the Caribbean.

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THE SUM OF ALL FEARS is another good one.

One of my all-time favorite movies! More people should react to this one.

Fun Facts: Unlike on American boomers, which require two missile keys to launch (see: Crimson Tide), the Soviets' SOP required five. But Clancy couldn't know this because it was, you know, a secret. Also, unknown to Tom Clancy (or anyone else in the West at the time) the Typhoon submarine has many independent pressure hulls (it's basically two subs in one external hull that share a CIC), and the missile silos are between the two forward hulls, and are thus completely inaccessible from within the sub while submerged.

11:07 The keys have to be turned at the same time and are widely spaced apart. No one person could turn both at the same time.

I was thinking you had not seen it at all. But that makes sense that you had not seen it in 25+ years that made it almost like a new reaction. Very good film. Lots of action and suspense.

Other McTiernan movies you would like. 13th Warrior with Antonio Banderas. And Medicine Man, another film he did with Sean Connery.

The other Harrison Ford movie was Patriot Games. Last one was Ben Affleck playing Jack Ryan: The Sum of All Fears. All are good. Little side that someone might have mentioned, Tom Clancy was a minor role actor in this movie. 😉

Authenticity aside, this is a great flick!!

Small historical inaccuracy: At 12:20 you can hear the word "Stalin" as the sailors are singing the Soviet anthem, this version of the song was no longer used after 1953 as part of de-Stalinization. The USSR was still led by cruel and oppressive communist bureaucrats to be sure, but they realized they had to separate themselves from Stalin if they wanted to maintain their power.

Ahhh the 1990s - the GRESTEST decade for movies! Add this film to the DOZENS of other BRILLIANT films made during the golden decade. I really miss the 1990s. Thanks for sharing.

The so-called submarines that were used in the civil War called ironclads

In the book before he was the president, he had been a federal prosecutor on organized crime. He thought to himself how similar the Russians were to the crime bosses he tried in court.

I remember a candid moment from Alec Baldwin on yhe Tonight Show where he was explaining the casting for this movie. He had already been cast, but Connery hadn't accepted the part yet. Baldwin said when he heard Connery was onboard, he was all excited and happy, and then it dawned on him, "Oh no, nobody is going to notice me." I can't imagine not having a window to see out of.

Movie K19-Widowmaker is a more realistic movie about the Soviet navy.

Movie recommendations (1) Star Trek 6 the undiscovered Country (2) Independence Day (3) Airplane 2 (4) The naked gun (5) midway 2019 (6) Battleship 2012 (7) spaceballs (9) Ninja Assassin 2009 (10) Olympus has fallen. (11) Wrongfully Accused.

Fun facts first the crew of the Red October were actual Russians who had just immigrated to the US. The reason Ramius is defecting is because he is upset with the way things are in Russia. His wife died of a disease easily treated with antibiotics unfortunately the antibiotics that were given were just water. the person that was manufacturing those antibiotics screwed up but because he was the son of a high ranking official he was never disciplined for his mistake.

I live in area w/ large US Navy presence (Hampton Roads VA); my friends who are submariners say Hunt for Red October is a comedy. If you want to see a realistic submarine movie, watch Das Boot.

The new Virginia Class submarine has that type of propulsion as the Red October has now and is driven by joy stick. I was a Sonar Tech in the Submarine force and it was because of this movie and the TV show Sea Quest DSV I went into the Navy Submarine Force. The Sounds of the torpedoes in the water are 100% as you hear it in the movie. Hearing sounds in the water come out that clear, we when tracking a friendly sub and hear the drive alarm clear as if we were in the room. I served on the same class of sub as the USS Dallas.

Fun fact..... Gates MacFadden (Beverly Crusher from ST: TNG) was Jack's wife in the beginning of the film in a minor blink and you will miss it side player.

Mark ? Supposedly, that submarine is as big as a World War 2 aircraft carrier! If so, it must be one of the smallest ones! ⚓️

I understand the movie that got made doesn’t follow the story real well but I think one of the best of Tom Clancy’s books is Without Remorse. This is the origin story John Clark an on going character in the stories with Jack Ryan. The movie and the story match up about as well as The Executioner and The Punisher do. Kinda in the same family but that’s about it.

Watch out. Julien is a Russian spy. As soon as those sailors started singing he broke charter and started singing too.

That was not the end of the movie! The discussion between Ryan and Ramius on the Penobscott River is very interesting.

Great video! Awesome movie choice. Although the actual distance a submarine can detect noise is classified, I learned in science class that sounds travels 4 times faster in water than in air because the molecules are closer together. Crazy!

This movie is a pretty darn good adaptation of a book that is incredibly complex...John McTiernan did Die Hard and Predator before this, so he was a good choice to adapt it for the screen. I have seen this movie too many times to be healthy, but it hits a lot differently than it used to...when it comes to Alec Baldwin, some things don't react well to bullets. But real talk...if you guys have not read the book Hunt for Red October, I cannot recommend it more highly...it is a really terrific techno-thriller.✌

It would have been a better movie if Ryan didn't have the psychic vision at the beginning telling him Ramius was defecting and the Americans and the audience figure it out over the course of the movie.

Excellent reaction

Good for him! Russia was just one part of the USSR, like Delaware is one part of the USA! 🫡

The Russians really dropped a torpedo. They really were trying to kill them. Sam Beil just said that to calm the crew down. Keep up guys.

Only one minute in & hitting like already; Tom Clancy…Rainbow Six. Fantastic book, probably in my top 3 of Clancy behind Clear & Present Danger & the one that started it all, Red October. (& because of Sean Connery, James Earl Jones & Fred Thompson) oh, & I wish a there was a Rainbow Six movie, true to the book of course!

Great review guys! Just one point is the Russian ambassador's convos are not with POTUS, they are with the Nat'l Security Advisor.

A few other Ryan movies are Sum Of All Fears and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Next you guys should do Crimson Tide -- an even better Cold War submarine movie :)

You made a "Star Trek" reference. Did you notice that, although it was just a small scene at the beginning of the film, Jack Ryan's wife was played by Gates McFadden, Dr. Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek The Next Generation"?

Hey am glad that you are back with the crew and are doing a reaction to such a great movie i didn't saw this movie when it first came out i actually saw for the first time a couple of months ago and i was happy and sad happy that i finally got see it and sad that it took me this long to watch it

U571 is another good movie. It's based on a true story.

Its been decades since I read the book but I'm pretty sure Jonesy gets promoted for what he did.

" Das Boot " from 1981,The Directors Cut,German subtitles. A WWII war film from a German perspective. According to many professional submariners, the most realistic and exciting Submarin Movie ever made. This is also the view of many other people on this planet. Greetings, nice reactions

Mark 20:44. In retrospect, they would be mere submersibles now rather than full-fledged submarines. Our first experimental prototype was the USS Turtle in the Revolutionary War! Later on, we had the USS Alligator while the CSA had their C.S. Hunley, to name but two. ⚓️ They were either peddle powered or hand cranked!

Not only did Baldwin lose the role of Jack, but the amazing Gates McFadden wasn't recast as his wife.

I remember seeing this in the theater when I was 5 or 6 and did not like it, and I understood nothing about Cold War politics. My dad in the other hand loved it.

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As a survivor of the Cold War, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has always been Russia - there is no difference that makes a difference.