The Bedford Incident
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| Directed by | James B. Harris |
| Screenplay by | James Poe |
| Based on | The Bedford Incident 1963 novel by Mark Rascovich |
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| Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor |
| Edited by | John Jympson |
| Music by | Gerard Schurmann |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Bedford Productions Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
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| Language | English |
The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, with James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, and Eric Portman in support. It was directed by James B. Harris, and produced by Harris and Widmark, adapted from a 1963 novel of the same name by Mark Rascovich, which borrowed from the plot of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
At the time The Bedford Incident was produced, Harris was best known as the producer of three of Stanley Kubrick's films. When Kubrick decided to make Dr. Strangelove as a satirical black comedy rather than a dramatic thriller, Harris still wanted to create a serious nuclear confrontation film. With Kubrick's blessing and advice, he did.