Did it? I can believe it. I remember seeing it in 7th grade english lit. The original story was actually written just after the civil war by Ambrose Bierce. That was always the secret of the Twilight Zone the writing was just amazing.
YankeeReb writes - “That was always the secret of the Twilight Zone the writing was just amazing.”
Oh my yes! Just reading over this thread brings one GREAT story after another, and some from so many other anthology format shows - The Outer Limits, The Alfred Hitchcock Show, and others. What happened to that kind of great literary television....
Tatt
“An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” is probably Bierce’s best known among his Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.
IIRC, the film version was made in France and Rod Serling simply bought it off-the-shelf.
Read the original, late at night:
“The officer”, he reasoned, “will not make that martinet’s error a second time. It is as easy to dodge a volley as a single shot. He has probably already given the command to fire at will. God help me, I cannot hope to avoid them all!”