Rod Serling's: Patterns & bonus: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
by Fielder Cook, Robert Enrico
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Actor: Andrew Duggan, Michael Dreyfuss, Sally Gracie, Sr. Ed Begley, Van HeflinDirector: Fielder Cook, Robert Enrico
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
Published: 2004
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Critic's Choice
DVD Reviews of Rod Serling's: Patterns & bonus: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
DVD Review: Overrated and boring
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this because my mother requested it. Normally I love nostalgic films and have a good collection of all genres and seen and enjoyed movies from silents to contemporary. I love the old Twilight Zone episodes in the series created by Rod Serling. There have been no negative reviews of this film anywhere - so I thought, sure, why not?
It was incredibly BORING and strident. The characters were either All-Good or All-Bad - no nuances or shades of grey. The dialogue struck me as propaganda, not read conversation. The characters didn't talk, they either lectured or screamed at each other. The ending was ridiculous - I wanted to throw my popcorn and scream, "No WAY!" The film quality was grainy and ugly to look at -- granted, it's an old movie, but it didn't age well at all. If it was such a great film, it should have been re-mastered and released to the public properly. It looked like a grainy old home movie.
If you want to see an insightful, perfectly acted and realistic movie about business and office politics in the 50s and 60s (though Patterns was set in the mid-50s), see Mad Men on AMC. It hits the historical and emotional points perfectly, and just about anyone who went to work in the early 60s will attest to the authenticity of the show. Mom recognized several scenerios in Mad Men that she experienced as a young working woman in the 60s.
Even The Best of Everything (a flawed film about an office in the 60s) was better than this dirge.
I admire Rod Serling, but this was NOT his best work at all. Save your money and your time. I wanted both back afterward.
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?The Twilight Zone? was still three years away when Rod Serling wrote ?Patterns? (1956/83 min.), the prescient tale of Machiavellian maneuvering at a large corporation. Serling's later masterpieces harken back to many of these plot elements, including a well-placed twist at the end. A bonus short film, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1962/28 min.), which aired as a ?Twilight Zone? episode, is included. It is the strange tale of a man who escapes a Civil War-era lynching, staggering his way back home. B&w/ NRBestsellers in DVD
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