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

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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