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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

1962 28m Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery & Thriller War List
Tomatometer 2 Reviews 87% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
A Southern civilian escapes his execution at the hands of Union soldiers when the hanging rope breaks.

Critics Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The intriguing short captured my attention. Rated: B+ Mar 18, 2010 Full Review Phil Hall Film Threat One of the greatest short films of all time. Rated: 5/5 Nov 6, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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Genesis 1 Well done cinematography....but I have to admit it's quite disappointing and disturbing in..the end of do I mean the beginning? Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/23/24 Full Review Audience Member (Sorry for my bad english) Maybe the only flaw of this short film was the unneeded deceleration of the escaping scene, where the shots were obviously too long and incentiveless. Anyways, the central idea of the entire story gets executed scarily in its plot twist, when the entire escape sequence is revealed to have been a dream or seeing a glimpse of his now latest lifetime that he experienced in the seconds before his physical death. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member A tragic and insightful look at the nature of death, and of life and of something in between. Features beautiful b/w cinematography with a minimalist soundtrack of only a few lines of dialogue, instead focusing on the sounds of life. Has a real sucker punch ending that's both brilliant and devastating, and has influenced the twist endings of a couple major Hollywood films. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Endlessly intriguing Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member A well made short film. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautifully powerful Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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Synopsis A Southern civilian escapes his execution at the hands of Union soldiers when the hanging rope breaks.
Director
Robert Enrico
Producer
Marcel Ichac, Paul de Roubaix
Screenwriter
Robert Enrico
Genre
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery & Thriller, War
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 10, 2017
Runtime
28m