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Director:
Robert Enrico
Writers:
Ambrose Bierce (story)
Robert Enrico (writer)
Contact:
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Genre:
Short | Drama | Fantasy | War more
Plot:
During the Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 win more
User Comments:
Where is the rest of this film? more

Cast

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge (USA) (actual spelling)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (USA) (orthographically correct title)
Incident at Owl Creek
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Runtime:
28 min
Country:
France
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Filmartic more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The US title "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" is misspelled. more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: Ropes can be seen pulling the gates open as Peyton arrives at his home. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Directors: The Films of Adrian Lyne" (????) more

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23 out of 27 people found the following comment useful:-
Where is the rest of this film?, 17 November 2004
Author: Benoît A. Racine (baracine@idirect.com) from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

BUYER BEWARE!

This short film is only one part of a three-story anthology film by Robert Enrico called "Au coeur de la vie" (1962) (please see elsewhere in IMDb). All three stories are inspired by Ambrose Bierce short stories about the American Civil War.

Something very strange happened to this particular episode of "Au coeur de la vie" (whose title is the translation of Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories "In the Midst of Life"). First of all, it was proposed as Best Short Subject at the Oscars in 1962 and won, even though it had probably never been shown commercially that way in the US or anywhere else. Second, it was chosen as the very last episode of Rod Serling's TV series "The Twilight Zone", in a cost-cutting gesture.

It is this truncated version that is generally available on VHS and DVD today. It is unfortunately not the way its director wanted it and the two other episodes of that film ("L'oiseau moqueur" and "Chickamauga", a.k.a. "La Bataille de Chickamauga") have totally disappeared from everyone's consciousness.

That is really sad as I remember seeing the whole film in a cine-club in 1963 and going through a thoroughly gut-wrenching emotional experience because of the cumulative effect of these three stories. For the record, "L'Oiseau moqueur" ("The Mockingbird") tells of the terrifying confrontation of two brothers on a battlefield and "Chickamauga" relates the famous battle from the point of view of a six-year-old deaf and mute child living on a plantation.

Some producer somewhere probably decided that the entire film would be too intense to be shown in its entirety to an American audience and it has since sunk under the waters of forgetfulness, except for that maimed "Twilight Zone" episode, edited for the inclusion of commercials.

Let us all pray that somebody, somewhere will rescue it from the ravages of time before it is too late and make the whole thing available on DVD, in its original, uncut, uncompromised form, very, very soon…

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