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Home Spies in the Movies Index	Spies in the Movies - C Clear and Present Danger (1994) Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer Directed by Phillip Noyce from the Tom Clancy novel Jack Ryan takes on the Colombian drug cartels and some nefarious members of a duplicitous US government in the third entry in Paramount's Tom Clancy franchise. Excitement only occasionally reaches thrilling levels. Awakened to the ineffectiveness of the country's war on drugs, the prez (Donald Moffat) has Ryan (Harrison Ford), now acting CIA deputy director of intelligence due to the illness of his boss (James Earl Jones), pursue the matter, while secretly setting loose national security adviser James Cutter (Harris Yulin) and CIA hardliner Robert Ritter (Henry Czerny) to send a paramilitary force against the drug lords. To this end, they hire CIA cowboy Clark (Willem Dafoe). The far-ranging plot isn't confusing. On the action level, pic is less high-charged than numerous other efforts of its ilk. (Variety)