" He has a new partner, an influential politician and rackets boss named Mac Keefer (George Bancroft)." Meanwhile, Soviet Captain Tupolov of the Alpha-class subKonovalovwas given orders to also pursue theRed Octoberin the North Atlantic, as he told his associate: "We are going to kill Ramius.However, the family""s head of the house is beckoned o New York due to a job promotion - an uprooting move that threatens o indelibly change the lives of the family members forever.Although it might be a deadly set-up, nonetheless, Marlowe agreed o go along for the ride - solely for the money.A year earlier, Lewis Milestone directed another adaptation of a classic John Steinbeck novel, the tragedyOf Mice and Men (1939), with five Oscar nominations and no wins.