The Incident (1967) on Netflix
NR19671h 39mCrimeDramaThriller
On a late Sunday night, Joe Ferrone and Artie Connors roam the Bronx looking for trouble. They board a southbound 4 train and begin taunting the passengers in the last car.
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Plot summary
The last car of a southbound 4 train, with one working door, fills with riders heading home: Bill Wilks with his wife Helen and their sleeping four-year-old, teenage Alice Keenan and her date Tony Goya, Bertha and Sam Beckerman, two soldiers, one with a broken arm, Muriel and Harry Purvis, out-of-work recovering alcoholic Douglas McCann, Kenneth Otis, and Arnold and Joan Robinson. Joe Ferrone and Artie Connors, two hoods on the lookout for trouble, have spent the night harassing people in the Bronx and mugging an old man; they board at 170th Street. From there they move down the car, taunting and humiliating each passenger while no one speaks up.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Incident (1967)
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- The New York City Transit Authority refused permission to film on its property, including background shots, so the filmmakers shot them anyway. Cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld and his son rode the subway and surreptitiously filmed the moving background with a camera hidden in a cardboard box.
- With no permission to film underground, the crew shot subway footage by concealing cameras inside bags. Police became suspicious when they heard whirring sounds coming from inside the bags.
- All the scenes inside the subway car were shot in a studio mockup of IRT World's Fair Lo-V #5674. The producers obtained original blueprints from St. Louis Car Co. to reproduce the car, and mounted lights along its exterior, illuminated in sequence, to simulate a speed of 30 mph.
- Cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld shot the film in black and white for what he called "the most realistic style of photography possible". Test shots in muted color were rejected as a distraction from the intended "somber" effect.
- The film's outdoor train scenes were shot on and around the Bronx section of the IRT Third Avenue Line, an elevated railway that has since been demolished.
