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- Jack Nicholson and Sean Connery both worked on a Ken Russell directed movie, as have many other great actors.
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- Even Though The Novel Had Been A Bestseller, Nobody Wanted to Make The Movie.
- Sean Connery Was A Last-Minute Replacement.
- Connery Almost Turned The Movie Down Because of A Fax error.
- Creating The Right "Ping" Sound Took Forever.
- That Christopher Columbus Quote at The End Is Totally bogus.
- It Was Inspired by Combining A Couple of True Stories.
- The Producer Wanted Kevin Costner For The Lead, But Costner Had Other Ideas.
- At Least Three of The Cast Members Had Actual Military experience.
Tom Clancy's book is a complicated story with a lot of technical jargon, which made Hollywood executives antsy. It also made the movie hard to summarize. "In Hollywood, because of time constraints, very few people in a position to say yes to a project like this read the book," admitted producer Mace Neufeld. "They generally read the reader's report...
The film had been under production for two weeks when word came that Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa), the Austrian actor who'd been signed to play the rogue Soviet sub commander Marko Ramius, couldn't do it after all because of a prior commitment. Connery took the part instead, needingonly one day for rehearsal. Coincidentally, he and Brandau...
"I had reservations about it," Connery told an Associated Press reporter upon the film's release. "I thought this kind of Cold War intrigue might be dated because of recent events. It turned out that the studio had failed to fax the first page of the script, which explained that it took place before Gorbachev." This is probably why no one ever uses...
Sound designer Frank Sarafine told American Cinematographer that he and his team "must have created 500 different pings" before director John McTiernan found one he liked. The radar ping was manufactured electronically, using sine waves and reverb, but other sound effects were recorded from real sources. For example, the squeals and groans of subma...
In the film's final moments, as Ramius looks forward to his new life in America as a defector, he says: "And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home." He attributes this line to Columbus, who knew a thing or two about sea voyages and new homes. But McTiernan said in the DVD director's commentary that the quotation was t...
In 1975, a Soviet Navy officer named Valery Sablin led a mutiny on the frigate (not submarine) Storozhevoy—not because he wanted to move to America and embrace democracy, but because he believed the current Soviet administration wasn't socialist enough. The Kremlin sent 13 ships and three aircraft in pursuit of Sablin, who was arrestedand executed ...
As Mace Neufeld explained in a behind-the-scenesDVD feature, "I'd gotten quite friendly with Kevin Costner, and I went to Kevin about playing Jack Ryan. But Kevin was up to his neck, and very enthusiastic, about doing this ... this buffalo movie. And I said, 'You'd rather do a buffalo movie?'" The buffalo movie—which also involved dancing with some...
Sean Connery was in the Royal Navy; Scott Glenn was a U.S. Marine; and James Earl Jones was in the ROTC and did U.S. Ranger training during the Korean War. As research for The Hunt for Red October, Glenn was invited to spend a couple days on an actual nuclear submarine, where thecaptain instructed the crew to take orders from Glenn. (Don't worry, h...
Sir Sean Connery took just $60,000 as his salary for this movie, as he was keen to play a character his age in a relationship with someone his own age. This was a far cry from the $14 million he earned on The Rock (1996).
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Willard Carroll
- 1999-01-22
The Russia House is a 1990 American spy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, Klaus Maria Brandauer and director Ken Russell. Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay based on John le Carré's 1989 novel of the same name.
Nov 29, 2011 · Russell himself played a prominent role in his thriller The Russia House (1990) with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, which was followed by Prisoner of Honour (1991), his last film with...
Nov 28, 2011 · A star-studded cast, including Eric Clapton, Oliver Reed and Jack Nicholson, played out their parts against a surreal background of child abuse, Marilyn Monroe worshippers and Tina Turner's ...
With Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox. A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.
