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The film's trailer. 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] The cast includes William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa.
The Bridge on the River Kwai: Directed by David Lean. 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.
The Bridge over the River Kwai (French: Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï) is a novel by the French novelist Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 and English translation by Xan Fielding in 1954. The story is fictional but uses the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–1943, as its historical setting, and is partly based on Pierre Boulle's own life experience working in rubber ...
6 days ago · Academy Award (1958) The Bridge on the River Kwai, British -American war film, released in 1957 and directed by David Lean, that was both a critical and popular success and became an enduring classic. The movie garnered seven Academy Awards, including that for best picture, as well as three Golden Globe Awards and four BAFTA awards.
Saito hits Nicholson & threatens to shoot all the officers. Saito is dissuaded from shooting by Major Clipton (James Donald), a British medical officer prisoner, citing an inquiry and scandal should Saito carry through with the murder of officers. He leaves Nicholson and his officers standing in the intense heat.
Jun 15, 2023. One of the great, action-packed epics of the late 50s, The Bridge on the River Kwai is an exceptional case study about the hysteria of war and the pride that comes before the fall ...
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Apr 18, 1999 · Most war movies are either for or against their wars. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) is one of the few that focuses not on larger rights and wrongs but on individuals. Like Robert Graves' World War I memoir, Goodbye to All That, it shows men grimly hanging onto military discipline and pride in their units as a way of clinging to sanity.
Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) They Might All Run Away We meet American prisoner Commander Shears (William Holden) and a fellow grave-digger (Harold Goodwin) schmoozing Lt. Miura (Keiichio Katsumoto) for sick-list time, before the Brits arrive at the Japanes prison camp in occupied Burma, in.
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.
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