---
title: "This Photo Of Connery and Baldwin on ‘The Hunt For Red October’ Set Is Nuts"
description: "There's a reason why that movie looked so realistic."
date: "2017-03-09"
modified: "2020-07-03"
authors:
  - name: "Tyler Rogoway"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway.md"
url: "https://www.twz.com/8196/this-photo-of-connery-and-baldwin-on-the-hunt-for-red-october-set-is-nuts"
categories:
  - "Hollywood"
  - "Navies"
  - "News & Features"
  - "Russian Navy"
  - "Sea"
  - "Submarines"
  - "U.S. Navy"
tags:
  - "Baldwin"
  - "Connery"
  - "Hollywood"
  - "Hunt For Red October"
  - "Jack Ryan"
  - "Movie Magic"
  - "Must Read Features"
  - "Set Design"
  - "submarines"
  - "Subs"
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---

# This Photo Of Connery and Baldwin on ‘The Hunt For Red October’ Set Is Nuts

![](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-twz/content/2017/03/hdhdhc1.jpg>)
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It's one of the best military thrillers Hollywood ever put out, and it's certainly among the lead of the pack in the submarine genre. Nearly 30 years after it first hit theaters, The Hunt For Red October continues to hold up incredibly well today. There's are reason for that—director John Campbell McTiernan and his team went the extra mile bringing Tom Clancy's Cold War yarn to life on the silver screen.

Part of this included building highly-elaborate sets of the *USS Dallas* and the [semi-fictional *Red October's*](<https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-massive-soviet-sub-that-inspired-hunt-for-red-octo-1552057821>) control rooms. They were set atop a large mechanical gantry that articulated at extreme angles to mimic "[angles and dangles](<https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/all-the-wacky-submarine-terms-you-never-knew-you-wanted-1708297555>)" experienced as real submarines make rapid depth changes and hard turns. The picture below captures one of these amazing sets and the two stars of the film—Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin—posing on it:

https://twitter.com/_/status/837098020223213568

You can learn more about how this awesome classic was made in this behind-the-scenes mini-documentary which is well worth your time to watch:

https://youtube.com/embed/2_epfA20dOY

*Contact the author: Tyler@thedrive.com*

## Author
Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site *Foxtrot Alpha* before developing *TWZ*, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day.

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