The Bedford Incident is one of the greatest Cold War movies and while you never see the sub, only its snorkel very briefly the movie probably belongs in the submarine flick category.
Movie fact, the USN flatly refused to provide any assistance whatsoever to the producers so many of the interior and exterior scenes are filmed aboard a Royal Navy anti-submarine frigate. The helo in the opening scene is a Westland Wessex with USN markings and in one scene you see a rifle rack loaded with Lee Enfield Number 4 MK-I rifles!
Another movie fact is that Eric Portman who plays the West German liaison officer and U-Boat veteran also played a U-Boat 1WO and hardcore Nazi in the 1941 British propaganda film 49th Parallel.
A fine example of a movie that is far better than the book upon which it is based.
-C
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