At 1:55 a.m. Joe Ferrone and Artie Connors went looking for kicks. They found it 7 minutes later in "The Incident."

As Shocking As Anything Let Loose On The Screen!

Hits Like A Switchblade Knife!

A Bold, Gritty, Terrifying Story Of Inner-City Terror

Martin Sheen may be the Grey Eminence of movies nowadays, but back in 1967 he often as not played switchblade-wielding punks. This he does, in the company of Tony Musante, in The Incident. After mugging a helpless old man, Sheen and Musante take over a subway car, terrorizing its occupants. In Stagecoach fashion, all the best and worst qualities of the passengers are brought to the surface by the presence of danger. Among the passengers are angry black man Brock Peters and his supplicative wife Ruby Dee, ex-alcoholic Gary Merrill, timorous Jewish couple Jack Gilford and Thelma Ritter, blowhard Ed McMahon, and homosexual Robert Fields. It is furloughed army private Beau Bridges who puts an end to Sheen and Musante's reign of terror. Based on Ride with Terror a 1963 TV play by Nicholas E. Baehr, The Incident is an unpleasant but undeniably fascinating character study. And yes, that cute young blonde playing Alice Keenan is Donna Mills.



The Incident is a 1967 American film written by Nicholas E. Baehr (based his teleplay, "Ride with Terror"), directed by Larry Peerce and starring Beau Bridges, Tony Musante, Brock Peters and Martin Sheen (in his first film role.) It tells the story of two young hoodlums who, after mugging a man at knifepoint, board a New York City subway train and terrorize the passengers.
The film was made for a budget of $1,050,000


Release Date: November 5, 1967 @ The Victoria, NYC

Distrib: 20th Century Fox