The Hunt For Red October, 1990
Sample dialogue: "Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan." With his intimate grasp of enemy bowel movements, Thompson's gruff admiral provided much-needed counterpoint to Sean Connery's gruff Soviet nuclear sub captain. Thompson's logged a lot of on-screen military experience, but he should be awarded a Medal of Freedom just for getting through the Red October incident, one of the strangest and most fictitious chapters in Cold War history.