Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 13
After the Battle of Shiloh a confederate prisoner Peyton Farquhar is taken to Owl Creek Bridge to be hanged for his Souther sympathies. When the trap is sprung his rope breaks and he escapes. He manages to make it home and is almost in the arms of his wife Melissa when his neck snaps suddenly and he dies at the end of the hangman’s rope having imagined the entire escape in the seconds before his death.
Serie: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Episode Title: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Air Date: 1959-12-20