| The Bedford Incident | |
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| Directed by | James B. Harris |
| Screenplay by | James Poe |
| Based on | The Bedford Incident 1963 novel by Mark Rascovich |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor |
| Edited by | John Jympson |
| Music by | Gerard Schurmann |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Bedford Productions Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
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| Language | English |
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 cast also features Eric Portman, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, and Wally Cox, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop. James Poe adapted Mark Rascovich's 1963 novel of the same name, which borrowed from the plot of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; at one point in the film, the captain is advised he is "not chasing whales now".[1][2][3][4][5]
At the time The Bedford Incident was produced, Harris was best known as the producer of three of Stanley Kubrick's films. The two parted ways when Kubrick decided to make Dr. Strangelove as a satirical black comedy, rather than a dramatic thriller, but Harris remained focused on developing a serious nuclear confrontation film, and The Bedford Incident was released less than two years after Dr. Strangelove.[6][7][8]
- ^ Two online sources of the New York Times review:
- Crowther, Bosley (3 November 1965). "Movie Review - The Bedford Incident - Screen: Fictional Navy:' Bedford Incident' Grim Movie on Cold War". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014 – via Archive.org.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - Crowther, Bosley (3 November 1965). "Screen: Fictional Navy:' Bedford Incident' Grim Movie on Cold War". The New York Times.
- Crowther, Bosley (3 November 1965). "Movie Review - The Bedford Incident - Screen: Fictional Navy:' Bedford Incident' Grim Movie on Cold War". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014 – via Archive.org.
- ^ Fuller, Karla Rae (7 October 2003). "The Bedford Incident (1965)". popmatters.com. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ^ Freedman, Peter. "The Bedford Incident". radiotimes.com. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ^ "The Bedford Incident". timeout.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ^ Clark, Graeme. "Bedford Incident, The Review (1965)". thespinningimage.co.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ^ Feeney, F. X. (interviewing Harris, James B. ): "In the Trenches with Stanley Kubrick," Spring 2013, DGA Quarterly, Directors Guild of America, retrieved 8 December 2020
- ^ Prime, Samuel B. (interviewing Harris, James B. ): "The Other Side of the Booth: A Profile of James B. Harris in Present Day Los Angeles," 13 November 2017, MUBI.com,retrieved 8 December 2020
- ^ Freedman, Peter: review: The Bedford Incident Archived 27 December 2020 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 8 December 2020