You tend to forget just how good Sean Connery
was. As the first James Bond he set a
mark that has never been approached, in my opinion. He acted in many other movies, some quite
popular, and no one, not even our supercilious film critics, ever could detect even a miniscule flaw. As Harrison Ford’s
dad in one of the Indiana Jones movies he all but stole the show. So, I’m a fan, and I like his role as the
defecting Soviet submarine captain in The Hunt for Red October best. He is simply magnificent.
You know the
story, because you saw the film 31 years ago.
I hope you saw it in a theatre with a good sound system, because the
Russian men’s chorus providing background music at crucial
intervals is wonderful. There are
excellent performances by quite a few well-known actors (Alec Baldwin, Scott
Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, and others) but the movie totally belongs
to Connery. See it when you have several
hours to kill, and don’t expect to “finish it in the morning”. It is far too exciting to let you sleep! A-
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