Harvey Keitel takes center stage as a double-crossed crook goes for blood after a major jewel heist turns sour — and bloody. Timothy Hutton and Stephen Dorff are in on the split for one late- ’90s crime caper that’s not a stylistic hijack of Quentin Tarantino. Directed by John Irvin.
City of Industry
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1997 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Timothy Hutton, Famke Janssen, Wade Dominguez, Michael Jai White, Lucy Alexis Liu, Reno Wilson, Dana Barron, Tamara Clatterbuck, Elliott Gould.
Cinematography: Thomas Burstyn
Film Editor: Mark Conte
Special Effects: Joe Lombardi
Original Music: Stephen Endelman
Written by Ken Solarz
Produced by Evzen Kolar, Ken Solarz
Directed by John Irvin
Director John Irvin earned his right to crow early on with TV’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the excellent action film about mercenaries The Dogs of War.
City of Industry
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1997 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Timothy Hutton, Famke Janssen, Wade Dominguez, Michael Jai White, Lucy Alexis Liu, Reno Wilson, Dana Barron, Tamara Clatterbuck, Elliott Gould.
Cinematography: Thomas Burstyn
Film Editor: Mark Conte
Special Effects: Joe Lombardi
Original Music: Stephen Endelman
Written by Ken Solarz
Produced by Evzen Kolar, Ken Solarz
Directed by John Irvin
Director John Irvin earned his right to crow early on with TV’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the excellent action film about mercenaries The Dogs of War.
- 10/21/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Once again Harrison Ford plays a doctor caught between a rock and a hard place. This summer he's not Dr. Richard Kimble, but once again he's Dr. Jack Ryan, U.S. Navy, and he's thrust smack-dab into the middle of the covert battle between the White House and Colombian drug cartels. It's Ford's rock-solid presence and flinty honor as quintessential American Jack Ryan that will generate blockbuster waves from this big vessel from Paramount.
The third in the fleet of Tom Clancy bestsellers brought to the screen by producers Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme, ''Clear And Present Danger'' is a spit-polish, fast-moving action-thriller, retaining Clancy's intricate plotting but throwing overboard his turgid techno-prose.
In this post Cold War-scenario, Ryan is promoted to interim deputy director of intelligence for the CIA as a result of his superior's James Earl Jones) ill health. Determined to keep a low profile and guard his flank, Ryan is nevertheless catapulted unsuspectingly into the midst of a clandestine war between the White House and the Colombian drug thugs. Honorable and decent Ryan soon finds himself holding the bag for a covert-action team that's waging a deadly guerrilla war in the jungles of Colombia. No mere desk jockey, he's soon on a plane to Bogota and man-on-man in the combat.
Charting an even balance between action and emotion, the screenwriting platoon (Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius) have skillfully crafted a big-screen actioner that is propelled not only by a cataclysmic and dangerous national situation but, perhaps more movingly, by one man's strong sense of ethics. Indeed, as embodied by Ford, the Jack Ryan character is the epitome of honor, loyalty and bravery. That he's also a bit squirrely makes him wonderfully identifiable and the best kind of hero to root for, especially when he utters what may be the summer's best line -- ''I don't dance.''
While Ford's marvelously forged portrayal of ''Boy Scout'' Jack Ryan is the film's centerpiece, the other players also win stripes, especially Joaquim de Almeida as the slithery counsel to a drug lord and Willem Dafoe as a steely CIA field op. Donald Moffat is superb as a president who masks his ferocity with scatterbrained folksiness.
Phillip Noyce's even-keeled direction is distinguished by his expert marshaling of the film's technical crew. Of highest rank, composer James Horner's score is aptly majestic and lean, while Neil Travis' crisp-cadence editing gives it just the right dramatic thrust.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Paramount Pictures
A Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme Production
Producers Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme
Director Phillip Noyce
Screenwriters Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius
Based on the novel by Tom Clancy
Director of photography Donald M. McAlpine
Production designer Terence Marsh
Editor Neil Travis
Costume designer Bernie Pollack
Music James Horner
Music supervisor Tim Sexton
Sound mixer Arthur Rochester
Special effects supervisors Joe Lombardi, Paul Lombardi
Visual effects supervisor Robert Grasmere
Stunt coordinator Dick Ziker
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Jack Ryan Harrison Ford
Mr. Clark Willem DaFoe
Cathy Ryan Anne Archer
Admiral James Greer James Earl Jones
Felix Cortez Joaquim de Almeida
Robert Ritter Henry Czerny
James Cutter Harris Yulin
President Edward Bennett Donald Moffat
Ernesto Escobedo Miguel Sandoval
Ramirez Benjamin Bratt
Chavez Raymond Cruz
Running time -- 143 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13...
The third in the fleet of Tom Clancy bestsellers brought to the screen by producers Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme, ''Clear And Present Danger'' is a spit-polish, fast-moving action-thriller, retaining Clancy's intricate plotting but throwing overboard his turgid techno-prose.
In this post Cold War-scenario, Ryan is promoted to interim deputy director of intelligence for the CIA as a result of his superior's James Earl Jones) ill health. Determined to keep a low profile and guard his flank, Ryan is nevertheless catapulted unsuspectingly into the midst of a clandestine war between the White House and the Colombian drug thugs. Honorable and decent Ryan soon finds himself holding the bag for a covert-action team that's waging a deadly guerrilla war in the jungles of Colombia. No mere desk jockey, he's soon on a plane to Bogota and man-on-man in the combat.
Charting an even balance between action and emotion, the screenwriting platoon (Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius) have skillfully crafted a big-screen actioner that is propelled not only by a cataclysmic and dangerous national situation but, perhaps more movingly, by one man's strong sense of ethics. Indeed, as embodied by Ford, the Jack Ryan character is the epitome of honor, loyalty and bravery. That he's also a bit squirrely makes him wonderfully identifiable and the best kind of hero to root for, especially when he utters what may be the summer's best line -- ''I don't dance.''
While Ford's marvelously forged portrayal of ''Boy Scout'' Jack Ryan is the film's centerpiece, the other players also win stripes, especially Joaquim de Almeida as the slithery counsel to a drug lord and Willem Dafoe as a steely CIA field op. Donald Moffat is superb as a president who masks his ferocity with scatterbrained folksiness.
Phillip Noyce's even-keeled direction is distinguished by his expert marshaling of the film's technical crew. Of highest rank, composer James Horner's score is aptly majestic and lean, while Neil Travis' crisp-cadence editing gives it just the right dramatic thrust.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Paramount Pictures
A Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme Production
Producers Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme
Director Phillip Noyce
Screenwriters Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius
Based on the novel by Tom Clancy
Director of photography Donald M. McAlpine
Production designer Terence Marsh
Editor Neil Travis
Costume designer Bernie Pollack
Music James Horner
Music supervisor Tim Sexton
Sound mixer Arthur Rochester
Special effects supervisors Joe Lombardi, Paul Lombardi
Visual effects supervisor Robert Grasmere
Stunt coordinator Dick Ziker
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Jack Ryan Harrison Ford
Mr. Clark Willem DaFoe
Cathy Ryan Anne Archer
Admiral James Greer James Earl Jones
Felix Cortez Joaquim de Almeida
Robert Ritter Henry Czerny
James Cutter Harris Yulin
President Edward Bennett Donald Moffat
Ernesto Escobedo Miguel Sandoval
Ramirez Benjamin Bratt
Chavez Raymond Cruz
Running time -- 143 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13...
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