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The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film directed by James B. Harris, starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and produced by Harris and Widmark.
The Bedford Incident: Directed by James B. Harris. With Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam. An American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters.
Reporter Ben Munceford (Sidney Poitier) is aboard a U.S. Navy ship sailing near the Arctic Circle, on assignment to write a profile of Capt. Eric Finlander (Richard...
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TRAILER - The Bedford Incident (1965) Cold War film starring Richard Widmark, Martin Balsam, Sidney Poitier, Donald Sutherland, and Wally Cox. Screenplay by James Poe is based on the 1963 book...
Often overshadowed by more famous nuclear disaster films like Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe (both released in 1964), The Bedford Incident (1965) is a chillingly effective doomsday tale which plays out its "Cold War" scenario off the coast of Greenland.
Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol.
Nerve-racking suspense surrounds THE BEDFORD INCIDENT, the tale of a U.S. Naval vessel on a routineNATO patrol that ends up in a freakish showdown with a Russian submarine.