The Washington Post, October 28th, 1990
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones. Directed by John McTiernan. 1990. Rated PG. Paramount tape, 134 min., Hi-Fi stereo. Andrew Sarris I am still trying to figure out why this movie was such a big hit both as a novel and as a crowd-pleasing action movie in its theatrical release earlier this year. Even some of the movie's admirers wondered whether this pre-glasnost, pre-Gorbachev, Cold War-rooted melodrama would seem timely when moves toward democracy and disarmament seemed to be breaking out all over Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. As I writ...
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