The Incident (1967 film)
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| Directed by | Larry Peerce |
| Produced by | Edward Meadow Monroe Sachson |
| Screenplay by | Nicholas E. Baehr |
| Starring |
Tony Musante Martin Sheen Beau Bridges |
| Music by |
Charles Fox Terry Knight |
| Cinematography | Gerald Hirschfeld |
| Edited by | Armond Lebowitz |
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Production
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Moned Associated
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Release date
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November 5, 1967 |
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Running time
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107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,050,000 |
The Incident is a 1967 American neo noir film written by Nicholas E. Baehr (based on his teleplay Ride with Terror, which had been previously adapted as a 1963 television film), directed by Larry Peerce and starring Beau Bridges, Tony Musante, Brock Peters and Martin Sheen in his first film role. It tells the story of two young hoodlums who, after mugging a man at knifepoint, board a New York City subway train and terrorize the passengers.
The film was made for a budget of $1,050,000.
It is Monday morning in the Bronx; two deadbeat punks: Joe Ferrone (Tony Musante) and Artie Connors (Martin Sheen) are causing trouble. After giving a hard time to a pool hall owner for closing early interrupting their game, then briefly harassing a passing couple on the street, then finally mugging an old man for his eight dollars and beating him into unconsciousness, they board the last car of a New York City Subway train and psychologically terrorize the passengers who cannot move to another carriage (it would later be shown that the door at the other end of the car is stuck closed).
As they make their way to the nearby elevated station No. 4 IRT Jerome Avenue Line 170th Street station, we see in flashback the passengers begin to board, starting at the downtown side (toward Manhattan) of the Bronx Mosholu Parkway where Bill Wilks (Ed McMahon) and his wife, Helen (Diana Van der Vlis), with a child boarding the train at approximately 2:15 AM after Bill refuses to take a cab home in Flushing, Queens due to cost. The other passengers board each station sequentially between Mosholu Parkway stop and 170th street: At Bedford Park Boulevard teenage virgin Alice Keenan (Donna Mills) and her sexually pushy date Tony Goya (Victor Arnold); at Kingsbridge Road an elderly Jewish couple, Sam and Bertha Beckerman (Jack Gilford and Thelma Ritter). Sam was the second person to really stand up to their tormentors. They tried to get off at the 86th street stop but were prevented by the thugs; at Fordam Road, two soldiers, Pfc. Phillip Carmatti (Robert Bannard) and Pfc. Felix Teflinger (Beau Bridges), the latter of whom has a broken arm; at Burnside Ave., a middle-aged wife, Muriel Purvis (Jan Sterling), who resents her mousey husband, Harry (Mike Kellin), because he is a teacher who earns less than many of their friends; at the 176th St. station, a recovering alcoholic Douglas McCann (Gary Merrill), who would be the first to attempt to stand up to the punks; Kenneth Otis (Robert Fields), a gay man who earlier made an unsuccessful attempt at befriending McCann and got on at the same station McCann did; and finally an African-American couple who boarded at the Mt. Eden Ave. stop, Arnold and Joan Robinson (Brock Peters and Ruby Dee). They had a chance to get off the train at their stop the 125th Street station at Joan's urging but Arnold, being of a militant bent actually enjoyed the spectacle of white people tormenting each other, and made them stay; and the punk's first victim, an asleep/unconscious derelict (Henry Proach) who was on the train always and remains totally oblivious to everything around him during the entire incident, including when the thugs seemed to be trying to set fire to him.
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