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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.
Jul 20, 2013 · 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...
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.
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 Widmark), a hardened anti ...
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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.
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.
