The Hunt for Red October (film) for the rest of the motion picture. Only towards the end of the film, at the beginning of the scene in which the Soviet and American submariners meet, do some of the actors speak in Russian again. Filming in submarines was impractical. Instead, five soundstages on the Paramount backlot were used. Two platforms housing mock-ups of "Red October" and "Dallas" were built, standing on hydraulic gimbals that simulated the sub's movements. Connery recalled, "It was very claustrophobic. There were 62 people in a very confined space, 45 feet above the stage floor. It got very hot on the sets, and
The Red and the Black (film) The Red and the Black (film) The Red and the Black () is a 1954 French drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, based on the novel "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal. The film starred Gérard Philipe, Antonella Lualdi and Danielle Darrieux, and won the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics award for the best film of 1955 and the Grand Prix de l'Académie du Cinéma the same year. Shown in various versions, the film's length is generally given as 113 minutes. In Canada it was 171 minutes; a longer