This won't be like anything you've ever done before, little brother.

Target leaving the palace now.

They're dead!

From the producer of the hunt for Red October.

Get down!

Based on the best-selling novel

Comes the summer's most explosive motion picture

Where's strong Miller?

Get me hostage rescue at Quantico now.

Airborne support approaching target area.

Patriot Games. Welcome to episode two of unclear and present danger, a podcast about the movies that tell the story of America after the Cold War and give a glimpse into its hopes, its fears, its self-confidence, and its insecurities. I'm Jamel Bowie. I'm a columnist

for the New York Times opinion section. My name is John Gans. I'm a freelance journalist.

And we are joined today by Will Ron, a senior editor for Yahoo News. Hello, Will. Thank you for

joining us on the podcast. Thank you. It's a pleasure.

So today, as you probably guess by the opening audio, we are talking about Patriot Games,

the second Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy movie of the 1990s. Patriot Games was released, June 5th, 1992.

It was directed by Philip Noyce, a director I'm not terribly familiar with.

Screenplay by Donald Stewart, Peter Illif, people I don't know.

Obviously, the people we all know from this are the stars.

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan and his first appearance in the role.

Anne Archer as Kathy Ryan, I think is the character's name. His wife, Sean Bean as the villain. Sam Jackson, who I forgot was in this. James Earl Jones, et cetera, et cetera.

A really stacked cast, lots of, lots of heavy hitters. The movie did very well. It grossed 18 and a half

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