The Washington Post, August 22nd, 2004
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. "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. The 25-minute film tells the story of a Southerner who's captured by Union forces as he prepares to blow up a bridge. They hang him from that same bridge, but the rope breaks, he plunges into the water and swims to safety and, eventu...
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