The Incident (1990 film)

The Incident (1990 film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Incident

| imdb_id = 0099842
producer = Bill Brademan
Edwin Self
director = Joseph Sargent
writer = Michael Norell
James Norell
starring = Walter Matthau
Susan Blakely
Robert Carradine
Peter Firth
Barnard Hughes
music = Kees Van Oostrum
cinematography = Laurence Rosenthal
editing = Debra Karen
distributor = Quintex Entertainment (USA)
released = March 4, 1990
runtime = 100 min.
language = English

"The Incident" was a TV movie starring Walter Matthau, originally broadcast on the CBS network on March 4, 1990. The film marked Matthau's return to television after over 20 years. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DC173CF930A35750C0A966958260/ New York Times review of the original broadcast] ]

Plot

The story takes place in the year 1944 in Breman, a fictional, small Colorado town. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099842/ Movie profile on IMDb.com] ] The Second World War is still raging and the town faces tragedy when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes), is murdered at a local POW camp.

Harmon Cobb (Walter Matthau), the story's protagonist, is a local lawyer given the unfortunate task of defending the Nazi prisoner accused of the killing the doctor, a man who also happened to have been Cobb's good friend. [http://www.hollywood.com/tv/The_Incident/5180956/ Movie profile on Hollywood.com] ]

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