The Bedford Incident
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| Directed by | James B. Harris |
| Produced by | James B. Harris Richard Widmark |
| Screenplay by | James Poe |
| Based on |
The Bedford Incident 1963 novel by Mark Rascovich |
| Starring |
Richard Widmark Sidney Poitier |
| Music by | Gerard Schurmann |
| Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor |
| Edited by | John Jympson |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
The Bedford Incident is a 1965 Anglo-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier and coproduced by Richard Widmark. The cast also features Eric Portman, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam and Wally Cox, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop. The screenplay by James Poe is based on the 1963 book by Mark Rascovich. That, in turn, was patterned after Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; at one point in the film, the captain is advised he is "not chasing whales now".
The film was directed by James B. Harris, who, until then, was best known as Stanley Kubrick's producer.
The American destroyer USS Bedford (DLG-113) detects a Soviet submarine in the GIUK gap near the Greenland coast. Although the U.S. and the Soviet Union are not at war, Captain Eric Finlander (Richard Widmark) harries his prey mercilessly while civilian photojournalist Ben Munceford (Sidney Poitier) and NATO naval advisor Commodore (and ex-Second World War U-boat captain) Wolfgang Schrepke (Eric Portman), look on with mounting alarm.
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