This is one of my least favorite episodes of the series. Instead of sticking to the Ambrose Bierce short story, this version turns it completely on its head by making it a series of flashbacks, instead of the time-telescoped story that Bierce wrote. There was a French short made of the same story in 1962, which was incidentally seen by Rod Serling at a French film festival and bought by him to air as the last episode of season 5 of "The Twilight Zone"; this version is far more faithful to the original story and far superior to the Hitchcock one. It is also one of the very few times I could say that an episode of "The Twilight Zone" was superior to an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". I really detest it when Hollywood does a version of a classic but decides to "improve" on it, which is almost never the result.
Review of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
