Tense Cold War dramatisation of Tom Clancy's novel. The commander of a new, top-secret Soviet nuclear submarine burns his orders and sets a course for the east coast of America. A CIA analyst tries to establish whether or not his motives are hostile while both the Soviet and US fleets are trying frantically to track down the renegade submarine.
The Hunt for Red October is a Film programme that first aired in 1990 and has been classified a PG certificate.
