The Incident (1967)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Larry Peerce

Writer:

Nicholas E. Baehr (writer)

Release Date:

26 January 1968 (West Germany)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

At 1:55 a.m. Joe Ferrone and Artie Connors went looking for kicks. They found it 7 minutes later in "The Incident."

Plot:

Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.

Plot Keywords:

Passenger | Subway | Train | Cast | Bum

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Victor Arnold	...	Tony Goya
Robert Bannard	...	Pfc. Phillip Carmatti
Beau Bridges	...	Pfc. Felix Teflinger
Ruby Dee	...	Joan Robinson
Robert Fields	...	Kenneth Otis
Jack Gilford	...	Sam Beckerman
Mike Kellin	...	Harry Purvis
Ed McMahon	...	Bill Wilks
Gary Merrill	...	Douglas McCann
Donna Mills	...	Alice Keenan
Tony Musante	...	Joe Ferrone
Brock Peters	...	Arnold Robinson
Thelma Ritter	...	Bertha Beckerman
Martin Sheen	...	Artie Connors
Jan Sterling	...	Muriel Purvis

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Norway:16 (1968) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | USA:Approved

Filming Locations:

3rd Avenue, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Moned Associated

Trivia:

A UK cinema release was rejected outright by the BBFC twice in January 1968. It has not been resubmitted since.

Quotes:

Pfc. Felix Teflinger: Where were you buddy?

Movie Connections:

References "Felix the Cat" (1960)

where has this movie been?

I caught this movie on AMC at 3 o'clock this morning (or so), and was blown away! What a tense, gritty drama - and what a cast! I was trying to figure out who was who, as they were all so young (Ed McMahon? Donna Mills? Ruby Dee without Ossie Davis? Wow!) Martin Sheen's baby face made his psycho character all the more frightening. To me, the movie is a great time capsule of the sixties, and of New York. I do have a complaint to register regarding the AMC channel - instead of squeezing the end credits to make room for commercials for the next movie, how about staying true to your movie fans who have a compulsive need to read the credits, and show them full-screen to the end? Who's with me on this one? Thank goodness for IMDb to get us through!