That doesn’t seem to be the case in the thriller The Hunt for Red October. The first adaptation of an established book character, the film used a submarine setting to ratchet up the intensity.

Providing inspiration for Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, the 1975 mutiny aboard the Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (translated Sentry) aimed at nothing less than the overthrow of Leonid Brezhnev ...

One book that is on my reading list is The Hunt for Red October, part of the Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy. While I have yet to read it, though it is on my nightstand, the last part of the title ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: “Though set in 1984, its attitudes reflect 1990, the year of its release. This is the era of Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika. The Russians depicted here..