The Incident (1967 film)

The Incident is a 1967 American film written by Nicholas E. Baehr based on his teleplay Ride with Terror, which had been previously adapted as a 1963 television film, 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.

It is Monday morning in the Bronx two deadbeat punks Joe Ferrante Tony Musante and Artie Connors Martin Sheen are causing trouble. After giving a hard time to a pool hall owner for closing early interrupting their game, then briefly harassing a passing couple on the street, then finally mugging an old man for his eight dollars and beating him into unconsciousness, they board the last car of a New York City Subway train and psychologically terrorize the passengers who cannot move to another carriage it would later be shown that the door at the other end of the car is stuck closed.As they make their way to the nearby elevated station No.IRT Jerome Avenue Line 170th Street station, we see in flashback the passengers begin to board, starting at the downtown side toward Manhattan of the Bronx Mosholu Parkway where Bill Wilks Ed McMahon and his wife, Helen Diana Van der Vlis, with a child boarding the train at approximately 215 AM after Bill refuses to take a cab home in Flushing, Queens due to cost. The other passengers board each station sequentially between Mosholu Parkway stop and 170th street At Bedford Park Boulevard teenage virgin Alice Keenan Donna Mills and her sexually pushy date Tony Goya Victor Arnold at Kingsbridge Road an elderly Jewish couple, Sam and Bertha Beckerman Jack Gilford and Thelma Ritter. Sam was the second person to really stand up to their tormentors. They tried to get off at the 86th street stop but were prevented by the thugs at Fordam Road, two soldiers, Pfc. Phillip Carmatti Robert Bannard and Pfc. Felix Teflinger Beau Bridges, the latter of whom has a broken arm at Burnside Ave., a middleaged wife, Muriel Purvis Jan Sterling, who resents her mousey husband, Harry Mike Kellin, because he is a teacher who earns less than many of their friends at the 176th St. station, a recovering alcoholic Douglas McCann Gary Merrill, who would be the first to attempt to stand up to the punks Kenneth Otis Robert Fields, a gay man who earlier made an uns

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