An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (The Twilight Zone)

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'The Twilight Zone'' original series Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)''' Fall 1963 – Summer 1964 List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes: In Praise of Pip Steel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet A Kind of a Stopwatch The Last Night of a Jockey Living Doll The Old Man in the Cave Uncle Simon Probe 7, Over and Out The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain Ninety Years Without Slumbering Ring-a-Ding Girl You Drive The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Number 12 Looks Just Like You Black Leather Jackets Night Call From Agnes—With Love Spur of the Moment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Queen of the Nile What's in the Box The Masks I Am the Night—Color Me Black Sounds and Silences Caesar and Me The Jeopardy Room Stopover in a Quiet Town The Encounter Mr. Garrity and the Graves The Brain Center at Whipple's Come Wander With Me The Fear The Bewitchin' Pool

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Details Episode number: 142 Season: 5 Production code: Produced as a short film independent of the Twilight Zone series Original air date: February 28, 1964 Writer: Robert Enrico from the story of the same name by Ambrose Bierce, first published in the 1891 collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Director: Robert Enrico Producer: Music: Original score by Henry Lanoe

Cast

• Peyton Farquhar (Confederate Spy): Robert Jacquet
• Mrs. Farquhar: Anne Cornaly
• Union Officer: Anker Larsen

Synopsis

A Civil War civilian prisoner is about to be hanged from Owl Creek Bridge. As he is dropped, the rope breaks. He swims down the creek, runs away from his captors and begins his journey home. While on his way home, he feels a worsening pain in his neck. As he makes it home, the pain worsens and he realizes that he was in fact hanged. He had been imagining the journey home in the short time from which he was pushed from the bridge, and the point in which he died.

Trivia

• Produced in 1962 by a team of French film-makers, Twilight Zone’s producer William Froug saw it and decided to buy the rights to syndicate it on American television. The transaction cost Twilight Zone $10,000—significantly less than the average of $65,000 they expended on producing their own episodes. However, Froug’s purchase allowed for it to be aired only twice. Subsequently it is not included on Twilight Zone’s syndication package, however it is included on Image Entertainment's DVD box set of the original series.
• Won first prize for best short subject at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.
• Won the 1963 Academy Award for best short subject.

References

• Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982. (second edition)

 

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