Clear and Present Danger (film)
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| Directed by | Phillip Noyce |
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Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy |
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| Music by | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Donald McAlpine |
| Edited by | Neil Travis |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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141 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $62 million |
| Box office | $215.9 million |
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| Released | August 2, 1994 (original), January 1, 2013 (expanded version) | |||
| Length | 50:35 (original release), 98:38 (expanded version) | |||
| Label | Milan Records (original), Intrada Records (expanded version) | |||
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Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 American spy thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancy's novel of the same name. It was preceded by the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October and the 1992 film Patriot Games, all three featuring Clancy's character Jack Ryan. It is the last film version of Clancy's novels to feature Harrison Ford as Ryan and James Earl Jones as Vice Admiral James Greer, as well as the final installment directed by Noyce.
As in the novel, Ryan is appointed CIA Acting Deputy Director, and discovers he is being kept in the dark by colleagues who are conducting a covert war against a drug cartel in Colombia, apparently with the approval of the President. The film premiered in theaters in the United States on August 3, 1994, and was a major financial success, earning over $200 million at the box office.
A U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat stops a suspicious yacht, discovering that an American businessman and his family have been murdered. The murdered man is a close friend of the President. President Bennett learns that the man was murdered because of his ties to a drug cartel, having skimmed over $650 million from it. The President tells James Cutter, his National Security Advisor, that Colombian drug cartels represent a "clear and present danger" to the U.S., indirectly giving him unofficial permission to kill the men responsible for his friend's murder. When Vice Admiral Jim Greer is stricken with terminal cancer, Jack Ryan is appointed Deputy Director for Intelligence and is asked to go before Congress to request increased funding for ongoing CIA operations in Colombia.
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