1961·28 min·Released

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Drama
Fantasy

During the American Civil War, a Southerner is about to be hanged from a bridge for sabotage when something unexpected happens.

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Roger Jacquet

Peyton Farquhar

Anne Cornaly

Mrs. Farquhar

Anker-Spang Larsen

Union Officer #1

Stéphane Fey

Union Officer #2

Jean-François Zeller

Union Sergeant

Pierre Danny

Union Soldier #1

Louis Adelin

Union Soldier #2

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Written on 11/30/2025

I must admit that when I saw the aforementioned “Owl Creek Bridge” I did wonder if it would support the weight of the character (Roger Jacques) whom the yankees were about to hang, let alone that of any train. Talk about rickety! Anyway, it would seem that this man’s days are numbered as he is made to walk a plank with a noose round his neck. Then something unexpected occurs and that sees the man given an unexpected opportunity to swim a gauntlet of bullets and cannon fire, and perhaps make it to the arms of his darling wife (Anne Cornaly). There’s precious little dialogue, so it’s left to the real-time looking monochrome photography as we follow the man’s strenuous efforts to cheat the hangman. There are several ways this can end, indeed as he ran and stumbled on the path I was almost shouting at the screen telling him to get into the woods in case he gets caught, and it’s that tautly directed ambiguity that builds to something tensely intangible. Initially I thought it a bit too slow to get going, but with hindsight this works really quite well.

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
February 28, 1964

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