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The Bridge on the River Kwai

  • October 1957
  • 2hrs

    41mins

  • Drama
  • History
  • War
  • Directed by

    David Lean,

    Starring

    William Holden,

    Alec Guinness,

    Jack Hawkins,

    Sessue Hayakawa

    ...

    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.