![]() ![]() The Incident trades heavily on the understood rule of city living, particularly New York living – avoid eye contact and resist engagement at all cost. Having assembled its wide swath of social significances, Joe and Artie board, jam the train car’s only working exit, and tyrannize their fellow riders with little collective resistance. Felix Teflinger (Beau Bridges), enter the train in good spirits, having enjoyed a dinner with Phillip’s family before the New Yorker accompanies Teflinger, an Oklahoman with a broken arm in a cast, to Grand Central Station for a longer ride home. Phillip Carmatti (Robert Bannard) and Pfc. Strained relationships are order of the day – Bill and Helen Wilks (Ed McMahon and Diana Van der Vlis) board with their sleeping daughter after arguing over the expense of cab and the disposability of Bill’s income Tony Goya (Victor Arnold) pressures and guilts his teenage date Alice Keenan (Donna Mills) from her chasteness and into the train car for some prolonged making out Sam Beckerman (Jack Gilford) laments to his wife Bertha (Thelma Ritter) the lack of appreciation and generosity of their son who denies him the funds needed for a proper set of dentures Muriel Purvis (Jan Sterling) voices her post-cocktail party resentment toward her unambitious husband Harry (Mike Kellin) struggling alcoholic Douglas McCann (Gary Merrill) and anguished homosexual Kenneth Otis (Robert Fields) board together after an unsuccessful attempt to connect in a nearby bar and white-hating Arnold Robinson (Brock Peters) expresses his disdain for the patience of his wife Joan (Ruby Dee) after spending the night at an event for inner city youth. Having introduced the film’s antagonists, The Incident then spends a substantial amount of time collecting its coterie of aggravated transit-riders enduring one final commute home to close their respective nights. They are predators that toy with their prey – guffawing and playing innocent through their threats, drawing out their dominance while savouring the fear of their victims. Tony Musante (reprising his role from the television show) and Martin Sheen (who had previously appeared on Broadway in The Subject Was Roses and who would reprise his role in that Bronx-located play for the 1968 film version) are Joe Ferrone and Artie Connors, two young men introduced by intimidating a pool hall operator, harassing a passing couple on the street, and then ambushing an old man, mugging him for a mere eight dollars and then savagely beating him. ![]() Baehr from his own teleplay which aired in 1963 as “Ride with Terror” on The DuPont Show of the Week, Larry Peerce’s The Incident sees a pair of young thugs turn a late-night train-ride on the Third Ave. This of course led MMC! to ask, why not a Criterion Collection edition of Peerce’s deeply cynical, aggressively monochromatic thriller? After all (and in the sage words of another Criterion fan) – more movie should go criterion thank you □Īdapted by Nicholas E. The Q&A indicates that a long overdue release of The Incident was believed to be forthcoming from a boutique label. When asked how the film fell out of circulation, Peerce commented that The Incident was an early failure on the LaserDisc format and was promptly abandoned by the studio when hard media converted to DVD and Blu-ray. PLUS: A new essay by Bruce Goldstein, director of repertory programming at New York’s Film ForumĮarlier this year, Film Forum screened a DCP restoration of Larry Peerce’s The Incident (1967) and followed it with a Q&A session with the director.Baehr and starring Tony Musante, Vincent Gardenia, and Gene Hackman Ride with Terror, a 1963 teleplay for The DuPont Show of the Week written and adapted from by Nicholas E. ![]()
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