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Spectacularly produced, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI captured the imagination of the public and won seven 1957 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Alec Guinness), and...
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- Sony Pictures Entertainment
Hitler has only got one ball,Göring has two but very small,Himmler is somewhat sim'lar,But poor Goebbels has no balls at all.
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When British POWs build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventu...
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- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle.
With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
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- Adventure, Drama, War
- David Lean
- 1957-12-14
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel and the film's screenplay are almost entirely fictional, but use the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–1943, as their historical setting. [3]
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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.
