Allison - Executive Officer, Bridge, Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK. Sidney Poitier's initial flypast and landing from a Whirlwind helicopter were filmed aboard another Type 15 frigate, HMS Wakeful, whose F159 pennant number is clearly visible. (credited as Glen Beck), Brian Davies as Lieutenant Beckman U.S.N. EMBED. Munceford comes to serve as the voice of reason against Finlander and in both the novel and even so in the film he is portrayed as quite justified in challenging Captain Finlander. A lonely jazz musician buys her. A tired Ensign Ralston mistakes Finlander's remark as a command to "fire one". [15] The film's message criticizing hawkish, confrontational Cold War policies reflected part of a backlash against militarism after the Cuban Missile Crisis almost caused a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962. [25] The Caine Mutiny is set in World War Two, but its picture of a destroyer commanded by an officer who has lost his mind greatly influenced several novelists in the Cold War who speculated about the possibility of a crazed naval officer trying to start World War Three either intentionally or by accident. Here's our roundup of the best new series of the year so far, and where to watch them. The vessel portraying a Soviet intelligence ship has the name "Novo Sibursk", written on the hull at the bow in the Latin alphabet, not the Russian language's Cyrillic alphabet; "Novosibirsk" is a more accurate English rendering. KC Hunt . The film ends with still shots of various crewmen "melting" as if the celluloid film were burning as the Bedford and her crew are vaporised in an atomic blast. The sheriff’s office said a … Naval vessel on a routineNATO patrol that ends up in a freakish showdown with a Russian submarine. I had to buy the book it was based on to see the differences. Truman. The Soviet captain, believing that World War III might have started, wanted to launch the weapon but was over-ruled by his flotilla commander, Vasili Arkhipov, who, by coincidence, was using the boat as his command vessel. [24] Maloney wrote: "The Bedford Incident is remarkably accurate in its assumptions that Soviet submarines were equipped with nuclear torpedoes on a routine basis". [22] When Finlander tries to justify sinking the Novosibrsk because "war is hell", Commodore Schrepke replies "a nuclear hell, Erik? In the tradition of The Caine Mutiny, brought up to date by Fail-Safe, here is another novel sparked by the Damocles' sword under which we are living; -machines vs men, and the fallibility of both. Naval vessel on a routine NATO patrol that ends up in a freakish showdown with a Russian submarine. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. The Bed ford Incident is an excellent contemporary sea drama based on a little-known but day-to-day reality of the Cold War, the monitoring of Russian submarine activity by US Navy destroyers. ", warning that his actions will set off a Third World War that will be the end of humanity. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Read 12 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. [11] Whitfield argued that by the 1960s popular mentalities had changed so much that more anti-militaristic films such as The Bedford Incident were being released. Uncertainty and frustration can turn into a crippling agony. View production, box office, & company info. Interior scenes were filmed in the British Type 15 frigate HMS Troubridge; British military equipment can be seen in several shots, including a rack of Lee–Enfield rifles and Troubridge's novel, forward-sloping bridge windows. 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