Clear and Present Danger [Includes Digital Copy] [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray]

Director: Phillip Noyce Phillip Noyce

Overview

This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald Moffat) is murdered by a Colombian drug cartel. When Ryan discovers that the President's wealthy friend was in league with the cartel, the President's devious national security adviser (Harris Yulin) and an ambitious CIA deputy director (Henry Czerny) send a secret paramilitary force into Colombia to wipe out the drug lords. The force is captured and then abandoned by the President's lackeys. It falls to Ryan to enter Colombia and rescue them, aided only by a renegade operative named Clark (Willem Dafoe), with both his life and career on the line.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/06/2023
UPC:	0191329248607
Original Release:	1994
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Paramount
Language:	English
Time:	2:21:00
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	9,250

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Harrison Ford	Jack Ryan,Coast Guardsman
Willem Dafoe	John Clark
Joaquín de Almeida	Col. Felix V. Cortez
Henry Czerny	CIA Deputy Director Robert Ritter
Harris Yulin	National Security Advisor James Cutter
Donald Moffat	President Bennett
Miguel Sandoval	Ernesto Escobedo
Benjamin Bratt	Captain Ramirez
Raymond Cruz	Domingo Chavez
Anne Archer	Cathy Ryan
Thora Birch	Sally Ryan
Ann Magnuson	Moira Wolfson
James Earl Jones	Admiral James Greer
Hope Lange	Senator Mayo
Tom Tammi	FBI Director Emile Jacobs
Greg Germann	Petey
Tim Grimm	Dan Murray
Belita Moreno	Jean Fowler
Ellen Geer	Rose
Jared Chandler	Insertion Team Radioman
Theodore Raimi	Satellite Analyst
Vondie Curtis Hall	Voice-Print Analyst
John Lafayette	CIA Analyst
Beau Lotterman	CIA Analyst
Rex Linn	Washington Detective
Ken Howard	Committee Chairman
Alexander Lester	John Ryan Jr.
Reg E. Cathey	Sergeant Major
Clark Gregg	Staff Sergeant
Vaughn Armstrong	Blackhawk Pilot
John Putch	Blackhawk Co-Pilot
Colleen Flynn	Coast Guard Captain
Reed Diamond	Coast Guard Chief
Cam Brainard	Coast Guardsman
Chris Conrad	Sniper Sergeant
Michael Jace	Coast Guardsman
Patrick Bauchau	Enrique Rojas
Aaron Lustig	Dr. Polk
Lynne Marie Stewart	Greer's Secretary
John Rixey Moore	Spook,Greer's Widow
Cameron Thor	DEA Surveillance Agent
Jaimé P. Gomez	Sergeant Oso
Harley Venton	DEA Agent
Miguel Pérez	DEA Agent
R.A. Rondell	MC Driver
Peter Weireter	FBI Director's Bodyguard
Blanca Guerra	Escobedo's Wife
Juan Colombo	Cortez's Bodyguard
Diana Sowle	Cartel Maid
Honorato Magaloni	Mining Company Manager
Victor Palmieri	Ambassador Ferris
M. Martinez	Chemist
Trip Hamilton	White House Guard
Alejandro Bracho	Fernandez
Kamala López	Venezuelan Telephonist
Guillermo Ríos	Gate House Guard
Rufino Echegoyen	Escobedo's Driver
Mark Bailey	Reporter
Elizabeth Dennehy	Reporter
Mario Iván Martínez	Chemist
Patricia Belcher	INS Officer
Tom Isbell	Restaurant Doctor
Kim Flowers	Restaurant Hostess
David J. Negron Jr.	Cartel Accountant
Denice Kumagai	Nurse
Kamala Lopez-Dawson	Venezuelan Telephonist
Marjorie Lovett	President's Secretary
Kevin Cooney	CIA Counsel
Alejandro de Hoyos	Spanish Reporter
Claudia Lobo	Ritter's Wife
Catherine MacNeal	Greer's Nurse
Lee Bear	Cutter's Bodyguard
Lis Kern	Horse Trainer
James Horner	Composer

Technical Credits

Donald Steward

Steven Zaillian

John Milius

John Bishop

Phillip Noyce	Director
Donald Steward	Screenwriter
Steven Zaillian	Screenwriter
John Milius	Screenwriter
Robert Rehme	Producer
Mace Neufeld	Producer
Mike Szakmeister	Sound Effects
John Bishop	Screenwriter
Chuck Picerni Jr.	Stunts
Robert Willard	Special Effects
Michael Herbick	Sound/Sound Designer
Frank Montaño	Sound/Sound Designer
Donald Mitchell	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Phillip Noyce directs the third entry in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series, a reasonably entertaining techno-thriller for those capable of untangling the plot. Harrison Ford once again stars as the CIA analyst, who here is both elevated to director of intelligence and forced to turn operative when he uncovers a questionable presidential directive regarding a Colombian drug lord. Clancy's right-wing fantasy world has been given a slight twist to the left here at Ford's behest, and one guesses that liberal writer Steve Zaillian and Genghis Khan-worshipper John Milius worked separately. Presumably based on some of William Casey's more lunatic schemes while head of the CIA, the film is a festival of double-crosses and backstabbing in the corridors of power, and throbbing action scenes in the Colombian jungle as the superhuman protagonist tries to save the surviving troops from a blown clandestine operation. Noyce keeps things moving at a steady clip, and does a fine job with the complex action sequences, but there are few surprises here beside the script's criticism of unauthorized covert operations. Despite the cardboard nature of the characters, the distinguished cast, which includes James Earl Jones, Willem Dafoe, Harris Yulin, Donald Moffat, and Henry Czerny, adds to the film's quality.