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Director David Lean
Screenplay Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Tagline: It spans a whole new world of entertainment!

Release Date: 1957-10-11

Duration: 161 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Jack Hawkins
    Maj. Warden
  • William Holden
    Cmdr. Shears
  • Alec Guinness
    Col. Nicholson
  • André Morell
    Col. Green
  • Sessue Hayakawa
    Col. Saito
  • James Donald
    Maj. Clipton
  • Harold Goodwin
    Baker
  • Geoffrey Horne
    Lt. Joyce
  • Percy Herbert
    Grogan
  • Heihachirō Ōkawa
    Captain Kanematsu

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