Welcome back to my blog. Here’s my recommendation of a movie to check out today and hope you punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” OK, for today, I’m highlighting a film in black-and-white: “The Bedford Incident” with Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark in a Cold War tale told intelligently and dramatically through the actors and not some special effects spectacular.
Although released in 1965, “The Bedford Incident” is in B&W. However, that just manages to add to the drama that unfolds in bleak weather in the far North Atlantic while a U.S. warship, commanded by Widmark, pursues a Russian submarine at the height of the Cold War.
Poitier plays a magazine writer and photographer who is aboard to profile the captain, whose crew remains on edge daily from stresses from the chase, mostly imposed on them by the narrow arrogance of the perfectionist captain.
“The Bedford Incident” is a showcase for just about every actor from the co-stars to the supporting cast, which sees an excellent turn especially from Martin Balsam, who plays a new ship’s medical officer who sees the infection of stress from Widmark affecting the crew.
The few special effects in “The Bedford Incident” are straightforward (the ship in an iceberg field, etc.) but are nothing but background optics for the drama being played out from everyone right down to a seaman sonar operator (played to perfection by Wally Cox).
So, I say punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” and find “The Bedford Incident,” which, at this blog posting, can only be seen via streaming rental on a variety of networks. Find it! Watch it! Don’t worry, you’ll thank me later.
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