Harrison Ford wears an unidentified watch

Harrison Ford plays Jack Ryan as a man whose decency keeps getting him into deeper trouble. In Clear and Present Danger (1994), Ryan has been promoted to acting CIA Deputy Director and discovers that the agency is running an illegal covert war against a Colombian drug cartel — sanctioned by the President and hidden from Congress. Phillip Noyce directs Ford's second and final turn as Ryan, and the performance works because Ford plays moral outrage the same way he plays everything: quietly, with his jaw set, looking like he'd rather punch someone than give a speech.

Ryan's watch has not been identified. The film is the most politically complex of the Jack Ryan adaptations, based on Tom Clancy's longest novel, and Ford carries it by making Ryan's stubbornness feel like principle rather than stupidity. When he walks into the Oval Office to confront the President, you believe he'd do it even knowing it could end his career.