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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.
- 7.8
- 1957
- Released
- 2h 41m
William Holden
Cmdr. Shears
Alec Guinness
Col. Nicholson
Jack Hawkins
Maj. Warden
Sessue Hayakawa
Col. Saito
James Donald
Maj. Clipton
Geoffrey Horne
Lt. Joyce
André Morell
Col. Green
Peter Williams
Capt. Reeves
John Boxer
Major Hughes
Percy Herbert
Grogan
Harold Goodwin
Baker
Ann Sears
Nurse
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Captain KanematsuVilaiwan Seeboonreaung
Siamese Girl
Keiichirō Katsumoto
Lieutenant Miura
Ngamta Suppapong
Siamese GirlJavanart Punynchoti
Siamese GirlKannikar Dowklee
Siamese Girl
Tsai Chin
Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)Christopher Greet
British Officer (uncredited)
Released
en
$2,800,000.00
$44,908,000.00
- #japan
- #based on novel or book
- #resistance
- #river
- #world war ii
- #prisoner of war
- #thailand
- #bridge
- #burma
- #pacific war
- #bridge blowup
- #dramatic
Reviews
Colonel Bogey's Barmy Army. OK! Lets get it out there right away, for historical facts of the real Bridge on the River Kwai story, one should research elsewhere, this film is a fictionalised account of the said events. Sadly there are those out there who simply refuse to judge this purely as a piece of cinematic art - and cinematic art it is. A squad of British soldiers are held in a Japanes