Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Lugo1989 The Incident is a must-see for every film buff. The story and the setting are very simple. The black and white photography looks really good and emphasises the gritty nature of night-time New York streets and the film itself. The performances are fantastic. You will see many familiar faces making their debut here. The main reason this film will never age is the fact that if you would put the exact same scenario in present times, things would not have played out much differently. The two thugs terrorising passangers on a subway train with everyone afraid to stand up and quickly put an end to the ordeal. Everyone for themselves. If it does not happen to me, I will be fine, I do not want to be involved and get myself into trouble. Sure some people speak up but their efforts are fast suppressed by the aggressors - too fast. It is a kind of social experiment in a way. How long does it take for people to reach their boiling point. The only reason that I have rated this 9/10 instead of 10/10 is that the set-up is quite long. It takes about 50 minutes before the subway train nightmare begins. But at least we get to know the thorough background of the characters. After that, The Incident kicks into top gear and the thrill ride with great suspense, acting and dialogue begins. Highly recommended.

Lee Novak The Incident: The ACTUAL "Bad Guys" OF the film are NOT Tony Musante or Martin Sheen,but the Pairs of High-Hatting subway passengers,who are "Shown the door" BY the Criminals who don't let them OUT! The only real Good Guy was the Beau Bridges Character Felix Tuppinger,the Convalescing Army Soldier.When the film ends,the "Victims" go BACK to their own Lives and Character disorders we have already seen.This film got NO or very little help from the NYC MTA,and the Subway scenes were shot at the Biograph studios in the Bronx,on a sound stage with a Roofless Subway car mock-up. I LOVE the incident,and I understand it was originally a play,written from a book,however this film was made earlier in 1960 as a WESTERN called:The Plunderers Starring Jeff Chandler as the "One Armed Civil War Soldier",which evolved into the Beau Bridges role. In THAT movie it was a GROUP of Young Punks taking over a Western town. Check out that movie and see the Similarities.

tavm Continuing to review African-Americans in film in chronological order for Black History Month, we're back at 1967 with the release of this independent movie that mostly takes place in a subway train in New York. Among the passengers on it are a black couple played by Brock Peters and Ruby Dee, the former an angry man who doesn't believe that all races should live in harmony with the latter a bit resigned to not being able to change his mind to the point of him leaving during one such meeting. They're both excellent in their roles among an ensemble that includes Donna Mills, Beau Bridges, Jack Gilford, Thelma Ritter, Ed McMahon-yes, the announcer of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", and-as the two toughs making their film debuts-Tony Musante and Martin Sheen. This was quite an intense thriller from director Larry Peerce whose One Potato, Two Potato I reviewed several days ago I also enjoyed. The only complaint I have is that the print I watched on YouTube was a bit blurry so I didn't always know what was going on. Still, The Incident comes highly recommended. P.S. Another person of color that appeared was a woman who is kept from going on the train played by Maxine McCrey.

worldsofdarkblue Haven't seen it in many years but it's never been forgotten by me. I'm pretty sure it'd be dated now, probably unappreciated by today's generation. But I've noted in reading these comments just how many NYC residents have declared it's realism. And there's the rub. Those that say they can't understand the paralysis of the individuals in the film are in denial. When a family from Utah was waiting in a NYC subway not many years ago the mother was suddenly affronted by a couple of lowlifes demanding money from her in a profane, threatening manner. Attempting to divert the attackers from her, her son verbally objected to her treatment and was killed for it. I remember the chill I felt when I read a witness comment that he was killed for interfering and that 'people here know you never interfere - you just don't'. I too have lived in the city all my life and have traveled the subways of the sixties and seventies and I can assure any disbelievers that whenever a bad element came on and behaved menacingly, passengers looked at their feetThat's the oft-chronicled syndrome of 'no safety in a crowd' . Going to the defense of a stranger and thereby inviting the violence unto oneself requires more than a little courage. This was possibly even more true in the sixties (the setting of this film) when our society was actually more civilized than it is now (regarding the violence to which people were unaccustomed) and the phenomenon of 'apathy' was noted by sociologists with alarming regularityNow, I can't really see the scenario of this movie occurring in real-life anymore. But in the mid-sixties it was all too authentic. Even punks were more creative in their activities back then. Today's video-drenched, learning-disabled, fast-shooting creepoids are too lazy, dumb and unmotivated to embark on such imaginative torments as the antagonists here. I actually knew a few guys like these two back in the sixties. The type that entertained and empowered themselves through the humiliation of others. Without the multi-channel cable universe in place back then they were too often found in inner-city streetsAs to the movie itself I just have to say that when one stays with you for the rest of your life it's pretty easy to categorize it as great. Much has been written already about the characters in this film so I'll not bother to add much except to say that the part played by Beau Bridges is the part to which I most identify. Not because of his heroism, because of the way he becomes sick to his stomach at his own cowardice. Had Tony Musante not turned his attention to the frightened Ed McMahon and his sleeping daughter the drama may well have had a non-ending. I felt the self-loathing that Bridges felt also and I think it's at that point that I too would have finally reacted. I hope soThey should bury a copy of this movie in a time capsule. It captures a moment in time of American inner-city culture that may be gone now, but you never know. History has a tendency to re-cycle