" Patriot Games (1992)d.Phillip Noyce, 117 minutesFilm Plot SummaryEx-Marine and fifty-ish, newly-retired CIA officer John "Jack" Ryan (Harrison Ford), now an author and professor at the US Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland), lived with his family in their isolated, coastal Maryland home: medical doctor wife Dr.Saunders: Daniel in the lion""s den.During the Senate""s proceedings, Smith""s credentials are presented to the dry-witted President of the Senate (Harry Carey), and he is brought forward to have the oath of office administered o him.He modestly told the students he was lucky and always had help, and that "facing this stuff in real life is not like school."Forced to resort to more desperate measures," and thinking it was their "last hope," the King and Queen rode in their royal carriage to meet with "devious" and "deceitful" Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) in a run-down Crone""s Nest carriage park (Deliverance""s Banjo tune played).It is the late 1920s - the head of the school, Headmaster Marsham (Frederick Leister) announces a "small disappointment" for the students:For the first time in fifty-eight years, Mr.