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Clear and Present Danger (1994) More at IMDbPro »

• The U.S. Coast Guard vessel that appears in the opening scenes is the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tybee, Patrol Boat Number 1330 (WPB-1330).
  
  
• The scene in which the convoy of Suburbans is attacked by the drug cartel is now actually used as a training video in US government agencies. The footage was also used in an episode of "JAG" (1995).
  
  
• Excerpts from James Horner's score were taken directly from a piece of music from Aliens (1986), also scored by Horner.
  
  
• In the scene at the airport, where the President is answering questions about his friend (using Jack Ryan's advice to say that he and his friend were very close), you see a pack of media approaching the President. The lead newswoman, and the one who asks him the question, is actually Barbara Harrison, a prominent news anchor in Washington, D.C. on the local NBC affiliate station.
  
  
• The aircraft carrier seen in the middle of the film is the Kitty Hawk (CV-63).
  
  
• Several scenes were filmed in nearby cities of Mexico City: Cuernavaca and Tepoztlan. The scenes in Cuernavaca represent Colombia, when they are drinking coffee and the persecution following that scene. Also, Tepoztlan's Hotel Tepoztlan is where the drug lord lives.
  
  
• Ritter has a folder on his computer called "SHOWBOAT". In the novel on which the film is based, Operation Showboat played an important role.
  
  
• A huge chunk of Anne Archer's part ended up on the cutting room floor
  
  
• Ernesto Escobedo is based upon real life drug lord Pablo Escobar, who was head of the Medillin cartel in the 1980s. Escobar died as the movie went into production.
  
  
• Ryan's line asking Ritter if he played tennis (to distract him during the computer showdown) was ad-libbed by Harrison Ford.
  
  
• The drug lord mansion destroyed by the missile was a real brick-and-mortar residence in Mexico purchased by the filmmakers from a divorcee who had unpleasant memories of the place. The filmmakers bought the mansion and destroyed it; the divorcee kept the land and presumably built a new house after clearing out the rubble.
  
  
• The assault on the SUVs was filmed in Mexico on a re-creation of a real Bogota street. Harrison Ford did his own stunt driving in the final escape.
  
  
• In Tom Clancy's novel, Ryan breaks into Ritter's safe to obtain the damning documents. The filmmakers thought that was too clichéd for film and created the dueling computers scene instead.
  
  
• The lines for the final confrontation between Ryan and President Bennett in the Oval Office were taken from an earlier version of the script after the filmmakers tried the intended version and found it lacked punch.
  
  
• The oval office set was originally built for Dave (1993).
  
  

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