That is probably the source of the fascination in this movie and the reason it works even though it isn't done very well. Detroit Police, Michigan State Police, and other National Guardsmen came to the scene to find what they thought. The incident started when Army National Guardsman Ted Thomas reported hearing gunshots at the Algiers Motel Annex.
This film is underestimated and unknown so the aim of the video is to e. The Algiers Motel Incident occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, two days after the Detroit Race Riot began. Perhaps that is not quite true, but there are enough true stories like the fictional one in "The Incident" to suggest that sometimes it might be. A Video Review of 'The Incident', an American movie directed by Larry Peerce in 1967. So the point is pretty obvious: The average American, of whatever walk of life, class, race or religion, doesn't want to get involved. But other scenes don't work so well the Negro man ( Brock Peters) allows his anger to rise magnificently to their taunts, but then the script calls for him to back down, and this is not at all convincing. Some of the confrontations work pretty well, as when the soldier from Oklahoma, who has his arm in a cast, balances neatly between his Southwestern pride and the clear realization that New York subways are of another universe. They start with the easy ones (the bum and the homosexual) and move up to the tough cases (the soldiers). Then the terrorists move around the car, duly terrorizing each character by turn. The characters are introduced in short scenes before they get on the subway car (the teenagers neck, the married couples quarrel, etc.). They only forgot the Indian, the hillbilly, the Irishman and the cop. The film was made for a budget of 1,050,000. The film stars Tony Musante and Martin Sheen as two street hoods who terrorize 14 passengers sharing a New York City Subway car, played by an ensemble cast that includes Beau Bridges, Ruby Dee, Jack Gilford, Ed McMahon, Gary Merrill, Donna Mills, Brock Peters, Thelma Ritter, and Jan Sterling. Baehr, based on his teleplay Ride with Terror and directed by Larry Peerce. Already in their compartment are a mismatched group of travellers a married couple with their five-year-old daughter, two soldiers on leave, teenagers on a date, a recovering alcoholic, an African-American and his wife, a gay man and an ageing couple. The Incident is a 1967 American drama film written by Nicholas E. There are a young married couple with a daughter, two necking teenagers, two soldiers home on leave, a Negro couple (she a social worker, he fed up with Whitey), an elderly Jewish couple, a gentle former alcoholic, a homosexual, a nagging wife and her henpecked husband and a bum (asleep). After mugging a man, they hop onto a subway heading for New York ’s Grand Central Station. The citizens are average citizens indeed they could have been chosen from old Gallup Polls to represent the various Official Man on the Street stereotypes. When director Larry Peerce ( Goodbye, Columbus) and cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld ( Young Frankenstein) were denied permission to shoot in the NYC subways, they did it anyway, using concealed cameras for some footage, providing a gritty time capsule of the 60s Big Apple as it begins to rot.The outlaws are two suitably tough hoods who roll a guy in an alley and then take the subway to Times Square. Baehr, based on his teleplay Ride with Terror (which had been previously adapted as a 1963.
Will any of them have the courage to confront the two maniacs?Ī high-velocity “home invasion”-styled hostage drama on rails, The Incident is a NYC transit suspense film that precedes the better-known The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by seven years. The Incident is a 1967 American drama film written by Nicholas E. – but they are united by their fear and sense of helplessness as switchblade-wielding Joe and Artie block the subway doors from opening at stops, and prevent the riders from leaving. The terrified riders are a mixed group – an elderly Jewish couple, a family trying to protect their 5-year-old daughter, an alcoholic, two teens on a date, two military Privates, a bigoted African-American man and his wife, etc.
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Martin Sheen makes his feature film debut as one of two small-time hoods – the other is Tony Musante ( The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) in one of his earliest roles – terrorising a subway car full of trapped passengers, portrayed by an ensemble cast including Thelma Ritter ( Rear Window), Beau Bridges ( The Fabulous Baker Boys), Ed McMahon, Donna Mills ( Play Misty for Me), Jack Gilford ( Save the Tiger), Brock Peters ( To Kill a Mockingbird), Ruby Dee ( A Raisin in the Sun), and a host of other instantly recognisable faces from NYC films and television of the era.Īfter mugging an old man for a few dollars, thugs Artie (Sheen) and Joe (Musante) hop a subway deep in the Bronx, and proceed to threaten and intimidate the Sunday night commuters all the way to Times Square.
A riveting urban tension thriller, and a fantastic snapshot of 1967 New York City in all its seedy, black-and-white glory, The Incident also features an iconic 60s cast that must be seen to be believed.
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