"Occurrence" won the Oscar in 1964 for best short subject when it was shown later on television as part of the final season of "The Twilight Zone," it also won an Emmy, making it the only movie to earn both awards, a record it still holds. Just as they are about to embrace, however, the scene shifts to his neck being snapped by the noose: The entire episode was just a hallucination in the moment before his death. They hang him from that same bridge, but the rope breaks, he plunges into the water and swims to safety and, eventually, home to his plantation and his beautiful wife. The 25-minute film tells the story of a Southerner who's captured by Union forces as he prepares to blow up a bridge. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," a short black-and-white film by the French director Robert Enrico, was made in 1962, as part of the filmmaker's trilogy of movies based on Civil War stories by Ambrose Bierce. One of the cinema's most influential movies - the one that launched a thousand cafe arguments - is one you've probably never heard of, let alone seen.
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