The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · Movie · 161 min. · United Kingdom
British POWs in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge; meanwhile, British agents seek to destroy it. After surrendering his unit to the Japanese. Colonel Nicholson demands his men behave by the book, and refuses to cooperate with the equally dutiful Japanese commander. When the Japapese insist that the POWs build a bridge, they decide to build the best one possible, thereby restoring morale. But after one of the men escapes to Australia and lets the British commander there know of the operation, he is sent back to the jungle to destroy the tactically-crucial bridge that his comrades are desperately trying to complete.
Direction David Lean
Cast William Holden · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · James Donald · Sessue Hayakawa · André Morell · Geoffrey Horne · Peter Williams · John Boxer · Percy Herbert · Harold Goodwin · Ann Sears · Heihachiro Okawa
Soundtrack Malcolm Arnold
Screenplay Michael Wilson · Carl Foreman · Pierre Boulle
Cinematography Jack Hildyard
Original title The Bridge on the River Kwai
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