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The Bridge on the River Kwai is now widely recognized as one of the greatest films ever made. It was the highest-grossing film of 1957 and received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. The film won seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture) at the 30th Academy Awards.
- $2.8 million
- Sam Spiegel
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.
- (229K)
- Adventure, Drama, War
- David Lean
- 1957-12-14
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.
- Pat Bauer
Plot summary. The story describes the use of prisoners in the POW camp to build the bridge and how a separate team of experts from 'Force 316' based in Calcutta were sent to sabotage the bridge. Lt. Colonel Nicholson marches his men into Prisoner of War Camp 16, commanded by Colonel Saito.
- Pierre Boulle
- 1952
- 1952
- Julliard
Jun 8, 2023. Apr 25, 2023. Adaptation of the Pierre Bouelle novel about POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American officers plot...
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- David Lean
- PG
- William Holden
Summaries. 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. During WW II, allied POWs in a Japanese internment camp are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma ...
Apr 18, 1999 · "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.
