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The Hunt for Red October

BBC One
on BBC One London

Cold War thriller starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn

In 1984 the new Soviet submarine Red October's trial voyage does not go as expected. Equipped with an experimental new propulsion system which makes it virtually impossible to track and captained by the enigmatic Marko Ramius, the heavily-armed vessel heads for America. Is Ramius about to launch an undetectable, pre-emptive nuclear strike?

(Continued after the Nine O'Clock News)
(Sean Connery also stars in the Second World War drama The Hill at 11.30pm)
(1990) (Subtitled)
Film reviews pages 56-65

Contributors

Director:
John McTiernan
Captain Marko Ramius:
Sean Connery
Jack Ryan:
Alec Baldwin
Captain Bart Mancuso:
Scott Glenn
Captain Borodin:
Sam Neill
Admiral Greer:
James Earl Jones
Andrei Lysenko:
Joss Ackland
Ivan Putin:
Peter Firth
Dr Petrov:
Tim Curry
Jeffrey Pelt:
Richard Jordan
Seaman Jones:
Courtney B Vance
Captain Tupolev:
Stellan Skarsgard
Skip Tyler:
Jeffrey Jones
Bill Steiner:
Timothy Carhart
Admiral Painter:
Fred Dalton Thompson
Captain Davenport:
Daniel Davis
Seaman Beaumont:
Ned Vaughn
Lieutenant Commander Thompson:
Anthony Peck
Lieutenant Melekhin:
Ronald Guttman
Loginov:
Tomas Arana
Ivan:
Michael George Benko
Source: Radio Times

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