An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

This French film adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" won both an Oscar and a BAFTA for short film in the early 1960's. It is amusing to see French actors re-enacting the U.S. Civil War—as if they didn't have enough wars of their own to re-enact. However, I don't think the film is as good a the original short story. Bierce's writing style is very descriptive, and you would think that would be easy to translate onto film. A good deal of the power of his stories comes from his tight focus on detail, and that might not be so easy to recreate on film.

In three parts.