I see I'm not alone, as every other reviewer (as I write this) has seen and commented on this story when it appeared as an episode of The Twilight Zone a little over four years after this one was broadcast. It's been over ten years since I've seen that one, but with the benefit of rereading my review of it here on IMDb, I'm confident in stating that the Rod Serling entry was the better of the two, even if it wasn't a Twilight Zone original, the only show in that series that wasn't filmed by his own production company. The main reason for that, I think, is that the French filmed version springs it's
conclusion on the viewer as if walking through a trap door. This Hitchcock story telegraphs it's ending when Peyton Farquhar (Ronald Howard) is led past the Union soldier camp by Josh (Juano Hernandez), and he wonders aloud why the men there didn't see them walk by. There's also the fact that Josh's mother Hattie (Ruby Goodwin) tried to buck up Farquhar's spirits over the loss of her own son (Josh), who suddenly made his appearance in the story. Not to mention that we already knew that Farquhar's wife had passed away, yet she's at his home to greet him when he arrives, escaping from his execution. So in this one, the 'twist' is not unexpected, thereby making it only somewhat passable as a Hitchcock mystery.
