| Release Date: | Jan 1962 |
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| Genre: | Short / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Thriller / War |
| Awards: | Won Oscar. Another 1 win |
| Cast: | Roger Jacquet (Peyton Farquhar), Anne Cornaly (Mrs. Farquhar), Anker Larsen (), Stéphane Fey (Union Officer), Jean-François Zeller (), Pierre Danny (), Louis Adelin () |
A Southern planter is about to be hanged for sabotage during the Civil War; when he is dropped off the bridge the rope breaks and he flees for his safety amid bullets and shots from a cannon. In this wonderful adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's short story, the depths of a condemned man's mind are probed. What does go through one's mind moments before death?