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:

  1. In Praise of Pip
  2. Steel
  3. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
  4. A Kind of a Stopwatch
  5. The Last Night of a Jockey
  6. Living Doll
  7. The Old Man in the Cave
  8. Uncle Simon
  9. Probe 7, Over and Out
  10. The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
  11. A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
  12. Ninety Years Without Slumbering
  13. Ring-a-Ding Girl
  14. You Drive
  15. The Long Morrow
  16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
  17. Number 12 Looks Just Like You
  18. Black Leather Jackets
  19. Night Call
  20. From Agnes—With Love
  21. Spur of the Moment
  22. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  23. Queen of the Nile
  24. What's in the Box
  25. The Masks
  26. I Am the Night—Color Me Black
  27. Sounds and Silences
  28. Caesar and Me
  29. The Jeopardy Room
  30. Stopover in a Quiet Town
  31. The Encounter
  32. Mr. Garrity and the Graves
  33. The Brain Center at Whipple's
  34. Come Wander With Me
  35. The Fear
  36. The Bewitchin' Pool

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

Roger Jacquet in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
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Roger Jacquet in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
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: Marcel Ichac and Paul de Roubaix.
  • Music: Original score by Henry Lanoe

[edit] Cast

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

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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.

[edit] 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.
  • This episodes introduction is notable for Rod Serling breaking the fourth wall even more than usual, to explain how the film was shot overseas and later picked up to air as part of The Twilight Zone.

[edit] References

  • Zicree, Marc Scott (1982). The Twilight Zone Companion. New York: Bantam. ISBN 0553014161.
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