The Bedford Incident (1965)
- Directed by
- James B. Harris
- Genre
- drama film, thriller film
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 97 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A journalist boards a US Navy destroyer commanded by a ruthless captain who obsessively hunts a Soviet submarine in the North Atlantic. Tensions escalate between the crew as the pursuit becomes increasingly dangerous.
tensesuspensefulclaustrophobiccolddeliberateseriousbleakslow-burn
What happens
The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, with James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, and Eric Portman in support. It was directed by James B. Harris, and produced by Harris and Widmark, adapted from a 1963 novel of the same name by Mark Rascovich, which borrowed from the plot of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. At the time The Bedford Incident was produced, Harris was best known as the producer of three of Stanley Kubrick's films. When Kubrick decided to make Dr. Strangelove as a satirical black comedy rather than a dramatic thriller, Harris still wanted to create a serious nuclear confrontation film. With Kubrick's blessing and advice, he did. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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