The Bedford Incident (That’s it! I knew I’d seen the “NATO Missiles in Russia” movie before)

YouTube ^ | 1965 | James B. Harris

[hardspunned]

At the time The Bedford Incident was produced, Harris was best known as the producer of three of Stanley Kubrick's films. The two parted ways when Kubrick decided to make Dr. Strangelove as a satirical black comedy, rather than a dramatic thriller, but Harris remained focused on developing a serious nuclear confrontation film, and The Bedford Incident was released less than two years after Dr. Strangelove.

[LIConFem]

"Great film."

It was. So good, in fact, that even Sidney Poitier couldn't ruin it.

[fso301]

Classic Hollywood pro-Soviet propaganda where the smartest person in the room is always a reporter having unlimited access and the American military personnel are portrayed as narrow minded war mongers.

[glorgau]

If Petraeus was shot during a live fire exercise, that should have been a career ending f-up for whoever was in charge of the exercise.

[DesertRhino]

More like boxed in by reality. The reality is that us and the Brits are conducting strikes inside Russia. We have hit their 20 billion dollar pipeline, the Kerch bridge, warships, their Samara nuclear bombers base, and early warning missile radar.
If somebody was doing a similar thing to us, we would’ve plastered them over with nukes long ago. It’s pure hubris that we imagine nobody would ever dare lash out at us when we do such activities.

[ansel12]

The left was very consistent in showing the Americans as the bad guys during the 60s and 70s in regard to Russia, and the movies and their effects very much linger today.

[ansel12]

“”””So good, in fact, that even Sidney Poitier couldn’t ruin it.””””

He was sure a downer actor.

[OKSooner]

He did a made for TV movie called “A gathering of Old Men.”

Mind-blowing examination of racism and situational ethics. Of course, he played the mean, racist Louisiana sheriff, but in the end... maybe he wasn’t a TOTAL AH, after all...

[OKSooner]

Hear, Hear!!

[DesertRhino]

Sydney was good. Lilies of the field was a masterpiece. He carried it.

[crz]

Just got done watching MIT professor Ted Postol explain those things.

Says it was launched in Kazakhstan traveled along the upper atmosphere at Mach 10 using that atmosphere to gain both speed AND range.
It is traceable through our advanced technologies as the dam thing glows like hell.
It released its multi re-entry warheads quite some distance from that target area AND every one of them can be nuclear if desired.
No way to defend against them.
Yet here we are. The war pigs act like it’s nothing..like Jack Keane on the tube flapping his pig gums about how we need to do this or that.

Six nuclear warheads on each missile.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Seems the worm has turned. We’ve gone from nice guys playing aholes to aholes playing nice guys.

[goo goo g'joob]

save for future reference

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent Summary.

There was a rumor that there was a special matinee showing in the DC area for Navy Security Group guys and their wives or lady friends.

The Army ASA group was also supposedly at the movie with their ladies.

Apparently, no one from the Air Force group was @ there.

Within minutes after the show started, there was zero idle chatter among the audience.

When the show ended, no one talked or laughed.

Finally, one of the wives muttered the Sh** word, and the
audience slowly and silently left the theatre.

Of course this is just based on a rumor.

[laplata]

That is a very well done and scary movie.

[laplata]

Screw Russia.

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Russia can reciprocate.

[Mouton]

Loved him as Madagen

[hardspunned]

The Russians can take Kursk at their leisure. As long as the Ukes insanely feed desperately needed men and machines into the Russian slaughterhouse, the Russians will oblige Z by killing or capturing every Uke sent. If Z continues in power and DC doesn’t start WWIII, the Russians will control and keep Kursk, Odessa and Kharkiv before Trump is inaugurated.

You do know that Russian S400 anti aircraft locked onto Israeli F-35s trying to penetrate Iranian airspace on 10/25. The F-35s turned around.

The Russians have deployed their S500s in Russia. It is rumored that the S500 represents a quantum increase in the Russian anti aircraft and anti hypersonic missile capabilities. Some even suggest a level of protection against our aging “dumb” ICBMs.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I just looked it up. It sounds good. I've been enjoying movies from the 40s and 50s the past couple years and will have to watch this one.

BTW, if you like psychological thrillers, check out "The Number 23." I just watched it a couple nights ago and liked it. "On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him with a dog bite and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth."

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Don't Bother to Knock

Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Screenplay by Daniel Taradash
Based on ""Mischief," a 1951 novel by Charlotte Armstrong
Produced by Julian Blaustein
Starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe
Release date July 18, 1952

Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 American psychological thriller starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe and directed by Roy Ward Baker. The screenplay was written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong. Monroe is featured as a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where a pilot, played by Widmark, is staying. He starts flirting with her, but over the evening her strange behavior makes him increasingly aware that she is unhinged. How he copes with the situation ends up profoundly impacting all three lives.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

It’s more of a play. Good movie for a locked in snowy day.

[bravo whiskey]

I think the book ends differently.