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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOne Of My Very Favorite Twilight Zone Episodes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge_(film)
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One Of My Very Favorite Twilight Zone Episodes (Original Post)
Floyd R. Turbo
Oct 2017
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ClarendonDem
(720 posts)1. Just watched a few days ago
On Netflix. Very good episode. There's a number of very good episodes.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)2. My Fav, - "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (11 Oct. 1963)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963)
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
longship
(40,416 posts)3. There's a THING on the wing!!!!
Love Shatner's over acting sometimes.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)4. I remember reading the story in a Twilight Zone book I had
in grade school, I think. I have never seen this episode. Quite a difference when you read the story as opposed to the movie with no dialog, his thoughts as he is running back to get home: "I must have run all night".
flotsam
(3,268 posts)5. A lot of info here:
Ptah
(33,037 posts)6. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is "one of the most
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature"; and was written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. Originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, it was first collected in Bierce's 1891 book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge
Paladin
(28,272 posts)8. Bierce's short story is justifiably famous.
And that "Twilight Zone" dramatization of it is first-rate.
Loyd
(309 posts)7. This isn't TZ!
Where the hell is Rod Serling?