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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. The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors.
The Bridge On The River Kwai. As the leader of his fellow prisoners in a P.O.W. camp in Burma during World War II, Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) has resisted all efforts by its ruthless commander, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), to get his men to construct a bridge across a gorge of the strategic River Kwai. Yet, after coming to see it as ...
Jul 17, 2018 · Although the Death Railway has never again reached the Myanmar border, a shorter stretch was reopened by Thailand’s railway authorities between 1949 and 1958, and trains on this modern-day line cross the infamous Bridge on the River Kwai. That makes the Bridge on the River Kwai one of Kanchanaburi’s most popular war-related attractions ...
The Bridge on the River Kwai. A highly principled British colonel becomes obsessed with leading a band of P.O.W.s to build a bridge at the behest of their Japanese captors in World War II Burma. 6,268 IMDb 8.1 2 h 41 min 1957. PG.
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI takes place in Japan-occupied Siam (later Thailand) in 1943, after the Imperial Japanese Empire has conquered vast territories of Asia. Over a muddy jungle river called Kwai, a Japanese colonel, Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), must complete a railroad bridge vital to Japan's war effort.
Jul 7, 2016 · 12. THE BRIDGE WAS BIG AND EXPENSIVE, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS THEY CLAIMED. Lean and his production designer, Donald Ashton, were in Ceylon months ahead of time to construct the film's title character ...
Sep 21, 2010 · September 21, 2010. David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai is the last of the director’s films to not succumb to bloat. Despite its grand, Oscar-bait stature, the 1957 epic subtly develops its themes about the irrationality of honor and the hypocrisy of Britain’s class system without ever compromising its thrilling war narrative.
