An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (film)
| "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | |
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 22 |
| Directed by | Robert Enrico |
| Written by | Robert Enrico, based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce |
| Original air date | February 28, 1964 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Roger Jacquet (Peyton Farquhar) |
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La Rivière du hibou (French, "The Owl River"; English title: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge) is an Oscar-winning 1962 French short film based on the American short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1891) by Ambrose Bierce. It was directed by Robert Enrico and produced by Marcel Ichac and Paul de Roubaix with music by Henri Lanoë. It won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards. It was also screened on American television as episode 142 (season 5, episode 22) of The Twilight Zone on 28 February 1964.
Roger Jacquet (Peyton Farquhar)
Anne Cornaly (Abby Farquhar)
Anker Larsen (Union officer)
Stéphane Fey (Union Captain)
Jean-François Zeller (Union sergeant)
Pierre Danny (Union soldier)
Louis Adelin (Union soldier)
A handbill posted on a burnt tree, dated 1862, announces that anyone interfering with bridges, railroads or tunnels will be summarily executed. A bearded Civil War era civilian prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, is readied for death by hanging from a rural railroad bridge; Union troops carry out the preparations with slow solemnity. The soundtrack contains only bird noises and occasional military orders. As the rope is adjusted about the civilian's neck, a vision of his stately home, wife and children flashes before him.
As Farquhar falls, the rope breaks, and the prisoner drops into the river. In a swirling underwater sequence he frees himself from his bonds, kicks his boots free and swims downstream as soldiers fire volleys and single shots at him. Farquhar is swept through swift rapids and crawls ashore exhausted but laughing with relief. Glimpses of tree branches, clear sky and crawling insects are interrupted by a distant cannon shot which sends him running through an extensive forest, then along an eerily linear and orderly lane. Finally arriving at the gates of his home, he pushes his way through foliage. Farquhar reaches open lawn and runs toward his wife as she walks toward him, smiling and weeping.
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