Farquhar is swept through rapids and crawls ashore exhausted but laughing with relief. In an underwater sequence he frees himself from his bonds, kicks his boots free and swims downstream as soldiers fire at him.
As the rope is adjusted about Farquhar's neck, a vision of his home, wife and children flashes before him.Īs Farquhar falls, the rope breaks, and he drops into the river. The soundtrack contains only bird noises and brief military orders. Union troops prepare a civilian prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, for death by hanging from a rural railroad bridge. The film was later screened on American television as episode 22 of the fifth season of The Twilight Zone on 28 February 1964.Ī handbill posted on a burnt tree, dated 1862, announces that anyone interfering with bridges, railroads or tunnels will be summarily executed.
It won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards. It was directed by Robert Enrico and produced by Marcel Ichac and Paul de Roubaix with music by Henri Lanoë. It was based on the 1891 American short story of the same name by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ( French: La Rivière du hibou, lit.'The Owl River') is a 1961 French short film, almost without dialogue.
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