The Bedford Incident is a Cold War film from 1965 starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and co-produced by Richard Widmark. The cast also features Martin Balsam and Eric Portman, as well as an early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop as a radio operator. The film was based on the 1963 book by Mark Rascovich, which was patterned after Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
The screenplay was written by James Poe. It was directed by James ...
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The Bedford Incident is a Cold War film from 1965 starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and co-produced by Richard Widmark. The cast also features Martin Balsam and Eric Portman, as well as an early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop as a radio operator. The film was based on the 1963 book by Mark Rascovich, which was patterned after Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
The screenplay was written by James Poe. It was directed by James B. Harris, who up to that point was best known as Stanley Kubrick's producer. Harris had recently split from a nine-year partnership with Kubrick. Just after the split, Kubrick would make Dr. Strangelove (1963), which raises similar issues to The Bedford Incident.
The American destroyer USS Bedford detects a Soviet submarine in the GIUK gap near the Greenland coast. Though they are not at war, Captain Eric Finlander (Widmark) harries his prey mercilessly, while civilian reporter Ben Munceford (Poitier) and NATO naval advisor, Commodore (and ex...
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