CRIMSON TIDE

ITV4, 9.00pm

A high point in the bombastic career of Tony Scott (brother of Blade Runner director Ridley), this mutiny-on-a-sub thriller doesn’t hold back with its rousing Hans Zimmer score, and a never-crustier turn from Gene Hackman as a nuke-’em-dead captain interpreting an interrupted order to mean fire away. But it’s gripping and smart, too, with Denzel Washington upstanding as a peacenik Lieutenant.

1995