An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a 1961 French short film,almost without dialogue. It was based on the 1890 American short story of the same name by American Civil War soldier,wit,and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was directed by Robert Enrico and produced by Marcel Ichac and Paul de Roubaix with music by Henri Lanoë. It won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards. The film was later screened on American television as episode 22 of the fifth season of The Twilight Zone on 28 February 1964.
"The Secret Miracle" is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. The story focuses on an author condemned to death. At the moment of his execution,time freezes,allowing him to finish his masterpiece,though only within his own mind.
Harry Alfred Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio,television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice,Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the end of network radio drama in the 1960s.
"An Inhabitant of Carcosa" is a short story by American Civil War veteran,wit,and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in the San Francisco Newsletter of December 25,1886 and was later reprinted as part of Bierce's collections Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Can Such Things Be?
Juano G. Hernández was a Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was a pioneer in the African American film industry. He made his silent picture debut in The Life of General Villa,and talking picture debut in an Oscar Micheaux film,The Girl from Chicago,which was directed at black audiences. Hernández also performed in a series of dramatic roles in mainstream Hollywood movies. His participation in the film Intruder in the Dust (1949) earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for "New Star of the Year." Later in life he returned to Puerto Rico,where he intended to make a film based on the life of Sixto Escobar.
Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter best known for making the Oscar-winning short An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961).
"A Horseman in the Sky" is a heavily anthologized short story by American Civil War soldier,wit,and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was published on April 14,1889 under the title The Horseman in the Sky in the Sunday edition of The Examiner,a San Francisco newspaper owned by William Randolph Hearst. It is set during the American Civil War and is one of Bierce's best known war stories. Bierce revised the story for his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.
The Escapist is a 2008 drama thriller film starring Brian Cox,Joseph Fiennes,Liam Cunningham,Seu Jorge,Dominic Cooper,Steven Mackintosh,Stephen Farrelly and Damian Lewis. It is directed and co-written by Rupert Wyatt,and premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to considerable acclaim. An Irish-UK co-production,the film was produced by Alan Moloney of Parallel Films and Adrian Sturges of Picture Farm.
Radio Tales is an American series of radio drama which premiered on National Public Radio on October 29,1996. This series adapted classic works of American and world literature such as The War of the Worlds,Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,Beowulf,Gulliver's Travels,and the One Thousand and One Nights. The series was co-produced by Winnie Waldron and Winifred Phillips. Waldron created the series and served as on-air host. Phillips composed music for the series.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American short story writer,journalist,poet,and American Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature",and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians was named by the Grolier Club one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.
"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by American Civil War soldier,wit,and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Town Topics on December 7,1893.
Post-Mortem is a one-act play in eight scenes,written in 1930 by Noël Coward. He wrote it after appearing in,and being moved by,an earlier play about World War I,Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff. As soon as he had completed writing it,however,he decided that it was suitable for publication but not for production.
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of short stories by American Civil War soldier,wit,and writer Ambrose Bierce,also published under the title In the Midst of Life. With a stated publication date of 1891 the stories describe unusual incidents in the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians was named by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900,stating "These short stories are among the finest,and best known,in American literature. ... Written in a clear simple style,with each phrase contributing to the total effect,Bierce's tales pointed the way for the American short-story writer." Bierce's famous story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is included in this collection.
"Killed at Resaca" is a short story by American Civil War soldier,wit,and writer Ambrose Bierce. First published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 5,1887,it was later included in Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians in 1891.
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"The Boarded Window:An Incident in the Life of an Ohio Pioneer" is a short story by American Civil War soldier and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 12,1891,and was reprinted the same year in Bierce's collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. The setting for the story is the part of Ohio where Bierce's family lived until 1846.
"One of the Missing" is a short story by American Civil War soldier,wit,and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner on March 11,1888 and was reprinted in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891).
"A Tough Tussle" is a short story by American Civil War soldier,wit,and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was published on the first page of the Sunday supplement to The San Francisco Examiner on September 30,1888 and was reprinted in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891).
Peyton is an English surname and a unisex given name. In Ireland it is known to have been among the anglicized forms of ÓPeatáin.
