The work you are searching for is "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by
Ambrose Bierce which was made into a movie in 1962.  It is a very powerful
story.  You are confusing it with another title, "The Oxbow Incident" by
Walter van Tilberg Clark which was made into a movie in the Forties.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art H Bahrs [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 10:09 AM
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> Subject:      Re: Ancient Wisdom
>
> Hi Tom :)
>     The Incident at Oxbow Bridge ... comes to mind... and I believe it was
> a similar (possibly the same movie but the memory is fuzzy from the high
> school years)
>
> Art "almost always slept during films in school hehe" Bahrs
>
>
>
>
> At 07:26 11/6/98 -0600, Jerry Fochtman wrote:
> >
> >Another example that I can think of was a short movie we saw in an arts
> >class in college.  It opened in B&W with a Civil War soldier about to
> >be hanged off a bridge.  The rope broke and he fell in the river.  When
> he
> >surfaced, everything was in color as he was escaping from the army
> >that was in pursuit.  After several near misses, when they finally placed
> >a hand on the escapee, there was a loud snap, and the movie went suddenly
> >back to b&w, back at the bridge with him now hanging from the bridge.  In
> >this case it was quite powerful the way the director had also used the
> >b&w and color to separate reality from a dream.... sorta like the
> >Wizard of Oz as well.... :)
> >
>
> I remember that movie (I saw it in high school), but I can't remember the
> name.  Any clues, anybody?
>
>
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