The Incident

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The Incident

1967,

1h 39m,

Mystery & Thriller

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88%

8 Reviews

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87%

250+ Ratings

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8 Reviews

87%

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250+ Ratings

On a New York City subway, two young punks, Artie Connors (Martin Sheen) and Joe Ferrone (Tony Musante), take control of a car filled with passengers. Among other people, the train includes military officer Felix Teflinger (Beau Bridges) and tough-talking Bill Wilks (Ed McMahon), as well as quiet Jewish man Sam Beckerman (Jack Gilford), and his wife, Bertha (Thelma Ritter). As the hostage situation stretches out, things become increasingly tense for everyone confined to the subway car.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Oct 23, 2004

3/4

The photography is fuzzy, the characters are gold-plated stereotypes, the plot is obvious and advances automatically. But the movie works; it delivers the goods. It creates the suspense and fear it tries for.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Sep 1, 2021

3.5/4

The sort of raw drama that, sad to say, never loses its topicality.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Aug 25, 2020

4/5

It's an exercise which remains as potent a time capsule as it is a mirror for the mutated behaviors and discriminations of today's vehemently troubled America which were inherited from their ignorant, complacent forefathers.

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Rob Aldam

Backseat Mafia

Aug 12, 2019

Hard to watch for all the right reasons

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Prairie Miller

WBAI Web Radio

Apr 4, 2007

It has been said about the film industry in the US, that it's a business whose commercial product just happens to be movies.

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Dec 5, 2005

5/5

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George S

Mar 9, 2019

Powerful psychological drama with exceptional performances and rather taboo subject matter for 1967.

Rey S

Oct 11, 2018

Some young men are up to trouble as they slang around town, robbing people and provoke everyone on they're way. They end up in a subway car and this is where they really start they're game. We see the stories of everyone in the car. How they get to the station and why they are there - we get to know them a little bit. It's a very nice build up, for 45 minutes or so, then Joe and Artie (acted by Tony Musante and Martin Sheen) enters. They are up for fuzz. Original setting, and brutal realism at it's best. It's almost like an old version of "Funny Games", just with an ever cooler setting. Very underrated film and very unknown. The cast is great and the performances are really good. A remake could be kind of nice. Maybe with an even better mixture of passengers and victims. 8.5 out of 10 casts.

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Larry Peerce

Director

Tony Musante

Joe Ferrone

Martin Sheen

Artie Connors

Beau Bridges

Pfc. Felix Teflinger

Jack Gilford

Sam Beckerman

Thelma Ritter

Bertha Beckerman

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Synopsis

On a New York City subway, two young punks, Artie Connors (Martin Sheen) and Joe Ferrone (Tony Musante), take control of a car filled with passengers. Among other people, the train includes military officer Felix Teflinger (Beau Bridges) and tough-talking Bill Wilks (Ed McMahon), as well as quiet Jewish man Sam Beckerman (Jack Gilford), and his wife, Bertha (Thelma Ritter). As the hostage situation stretches out, things become increasingly tense for everyone confined to the subway car.

Director: Larry Peerce
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 39m

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