Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories

Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 14, 2006

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Western, History, Drama

User Score

47%

Original Title

Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories

Director

Don Maxwell

Description

Legendary writer Ambrose Bierce was known to be brilliant, cantankerous and romantic in all his life's passions, and was revered as one of the top storytellers of the late 19th Century. In 1890, he presented his recently published collection of Civil War Stories to novelist Gertrude Atherton and fledgling young publisher William Randolph Hearst during an infamous meeting in Sonol, California. This meeting sets the forum for the presentation of three of Bierce's most popular stories including "One Kind Of Officer", "Story Of A Conscience" and "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge." This acclaimed collection features epic battle sequences, deeply conflicted drama and the signature "surprise endings" that characterized most of the short stories by Ambrose Bierce.