" Afterwards, they would sail to Havana, Cuba for sun, comradeship, and shore leave.At US Naval yards in Maryland, Jack Ryan met with submarine engineering expert ""Skip"" Tyler (Jeffrey Jones), and learned that the submarine doors in the photographs meant that theRed Octoberwas equipped with a unique and revolutionary propulsion system known as a magneto-hydrodynamic drive (aka caterpillar drive), an ultra-quiet jet engine in the water that was undetectable.The next morning, the young naive son is stunned when his father coldly treats him as an ordinary junior recruit ("you""ve got a great deal to learn").The creative team had made other films in the previous five years that were also considered equally controversial (and challenging to the mainstream), including:The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)A Matter of Life and Death (1946)Black Narcissus (1947)TheRed Shoestale was derived - metaphorically - from Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen""s disquieting and tragic children""s story of the same name published in 1845.To protect his own daughter, Sheriff Brackett ordered his Deputy Andy Neale (Greg Travis) to take his shotgun to his own house and sit guard over Annie.