The Hunt for Red October (film) I'm also prone to sea sickness. The set would tilt to 45 degrees. Very disturbing." The veteran actor shot for four weeks and the rest of the production shot for additional months on location in Port Angeles, Washington and the waters off Los Angeles. Made before sophisticated CGI became the norm in filmmaking, the film's opening sequence featured a long pull-out reveal of the immense titular Typhoon-class sub. It included a nearly full-scale, above-the-water-line mockup of the sub, constructed from two barges welded together. Each country's submarine had its own background color: Soviet submarines, such as "Red October" and "V.K.
The Red Danube in the US and Canada and $682,000 overseas, resulting in a loss of $905,000. The film was criticized for being a propaganda film, "designed to make you hate Russia and recognize the Vatican as the true champion of freedom". Film Score Monthly, on the other hand, noted that film "struck a chord with reviewers" by "bringing humanity to a difficult subject" and having a message "not compromised by preachiness." It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, and Hugh Hunt). The Red Danube The Red Danube is a 1949 American