The Bedford Incident (1965)
Director: James B Harris
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Harris, Stanley Kubrick's former producer, here came up with his own Dr Strangelove variant, muting the black humour but just as incisively diagnosing nuclear insanity, as Widmark's super-patriot warship captain hunts a Soviet sub in Arctic waters, justifying his brinkmanship to Poitier's junketing journalist (along to do a story) and a sorely tried crew. (From the novel by Mark Rascovich.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: James B Harris
Producer: James B Harris
Cast: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Eric Portman, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Donald Sutherland full cast
Duration: 102 mins
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