Clear and Present Danger (film)

Clear and Present Danger
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Phillip Noyce
Screenplay by	John Milius Donald E. Stewart Steven Zaillian
Based on	Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
Produced by	Mace Neufeld Robert Rehme
Starring	Harrison Ford Willem Dafoe Anne Archer James Earl Jones
Cinematography	Donald McAlpine
Edited by	Neil Travis
Music by	James Horner
Production company	Mace Neufeld Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 3, 1994 (1994-08-03)
Running time	141 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Languages	English Spanish
Budget	$62 million[2]
Box office	$215.9 million[2]

Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce^[3] and based on Tom Clancy's 1989 novel of the same name. It is a sequel to The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Patriot Games (1992) and part of a series of films featuring Clancy's character Jack Ryan. It is the last film version of Clancy's novels to feature Harrison Ford as Ryan and James Earl Jones as Vice Admiral James Greer, as well as the final installment directed by Noyce.

As in the novel, Ryan is appointed CIA Acting Deputy Director (Intelligence) (DDI), and discovers he is being kept in the dark by colleagues who are conducting a covert war against a drug cartel in Colombia, apparently with the approval of the President. The film was released in theaters in the United States on August 3, 1994, and was a critical and financial success, earning over $215 million worldwide.