Movie: "The Incident", 1967; very good. Martin Sheen, Tony Musante, Beau Bridges

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061814/

Highly Recommended.

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1. Thanks

I'll check it out. Sounds similar to "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3"

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3. If you've ever ridden a subway late at night....

You can see how this sort of situation could occur, nothing unbelievable in it, but kinda cool for an older film.

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4. I like those "forgotten gems"

Don't think I would want to be on a subway late at night though.

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5. Some of the best movies just pop up late at night. "The Bad Seed" (1956)

Was one I discovered that way, 2 in the morning, twenty years ago.

It's pretty well known, though.

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2. I saw that when I was a kid,I saw it again recently.

It's still just as powerful.

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6. I'm trying to think of another one, similar, black and white....

It's got some low-life gang type kids, I believe they terrorized a wheelchair bound woman in her home.

I seem to remember that she has an electric lift that runs parallel to the stairs, or an elevator, in this two story house.

A rape is threatened or implied.

Do you know this one?

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8. 'Lady in a Cage'?

(He said, butting in.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058283/



Just thought of another one: "The Slender Thread" — Sidney Poitier as a suicide hotline volunteer on a very tense call.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059729/

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9. I think that might be it, at first I wasn't sure, I needed to see if this kid was in it:

Rafael Campos:



The Slender Thread--I haven't seen that, I'll have to get it.

Thanks!!!

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7. Saw that for the first time when I was 12 or 13

Very gritty. Outstanding photography, wonderful performances.

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10. Even Ed McMahon turned out a good performance.

Who knew???

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12. I also liked the unhappily married couple

who battled between themselves so much that Musante and Sheen pretty much just left 'em alone. :D



Hmmmmm... interesting. "The Incident" was a re-make of a 1963 NBC production, "Ride With Terror," in which Musante played the same character, Joe Ferrone. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213196/

I have to wonder if Bel Kaufman saw that before or as she wrote "Up the Down Staircase," in which the school's bad boy was named Joe Ferone.

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13. Oh! Huh! I'll bet it's more than coincidence...

Cool bit of potential trivia!

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15. Kaufman's still alive, according to Wikipedia

Wish I could contact her to ask. :)

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11. Saw that years ago. Musante was such a creep!

Such a thrill when Bridges beat the shit out of him at the end.

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14. And sheen played a good role.

But Musante was the more evil of the two, IIRC.