**** Tense Cold War thriller - the first cinematic outing for Tom Clancy 's hero Jack Ryan - starring Sean Connery , Alec Baldwin and Sam Neill.
1984: the trial voyage of new Soviet submarine Red October does not go as expected. Equipped with an experimental propulsion system that 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? With Scott Glenn and Joss Ackland.