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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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Release Date: 1957, October 11
Directors: David Lean
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Horizon Pictures
Cast: Peter Williams, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, André Morell, Tsai Chin, James Donald, Keiichirō Katsumoto, William Holden, Harold Goodwin, Christopher Greet, Percy Herbert, Geoffrey Horne

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book world war ii resistance dramatic japan aggressive river prisoner of war thailand burma bridge pacific war bridge blowup