The Bridge on the River Kwai
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Overview
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
- Budget
- $2,800,000
- Revenue
- $44,908,000
- Production
- Horizon Pictures
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Cast
William Holden
Cmdr. Shears
Alec Guinness
Col. Nicholson
Jack Hawkins
Maj. Warden
Sessue Hayakawa
Col. Saito
James Donald
Maj. Clipton
Geoffrey Horne
Lt. Joyce
André Morell
Col. Green
Peter Williams
Capt. Reeves
Percy Herbert
Grogan
Harold Goodwin
Baker
Ann Sears
Nurse
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Captain Kanematsu
Keiichirō Katsumoto
Lieutenant Miura
Ngamta Suppapong
Siamese Girl
Tsai Chin
Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- David Lean
- Writers
- Carl Foreman,Michael Wilson
- Producers
- Sam Spiegel
- Cinematography
- Jack Hildyard
- Composer
- Malcolm Arnold
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John Chard
July 31, 2016
Colonel Bogey's Barmy Army. OK! Lets get it out there right away, for historical facts of the real Bridge on the River Kwai story, one should research elsewhere, this film is a fictionalised account of the said events. Sadly there are those out there who simply refuse to judge this purely as a piece of cinematic art - and cinematic art it is. A squad of British soldiers are held in a Japanese POW camp in the Burmese jungle. The respective Japanese and British leaders clash but an understan…