Here’s the fun thing about watching this movie with a first-timer who knows nothing about Sean Connery’s film career — for the first half of the movie Ramius seems like a Soviet madman who might be going rogue.

FUCK this movie is good

“The Hunt for Red October” has a lot of examples of lines of dialogue that were most likely added in post production, spoken by offscreen characters, to help the audience understand the basics of the plot.