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Release Date: 1957

Cast: Alec Guinness, Keiichiro Katsumoto, Percy Herbert, John Boxer, André Morell, M. R. B. Chakrabandhu, Jack Hawkins, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Peter Williams, Ann Sears, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne ...MORE

Cast: Alec Guinness, Keiichiro Katsumoto, Percy Herbert, John Boxer, André Morell, M. R. B. Chakrabandhu, Jack Hawkins, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Peter Williams, Ann Sears, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, William Holden, Harold Goodwin, James Donald ...LESS

Categories: Movies, War Film, Adventure, Ensemble Film, Drama Film

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa. The film was shot in Sri Lanka (credited as Ceylon, as it was known at the time). The bridge in the movie was located near Kitulgala. In 1997, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation... MORE

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa. The film was shot in Sri Lanka (credited as Ceylon, as it was known at the time). The bridge in the movie was located near Kitulgala. In 1997, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry. After the surrender of Singapore in World War II, a unit of British soldiers are marched to a Japanese prison camp in western Thailand. They are paraded before the camp commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), who informs them of his rules; all prisoners, regardless of rank, are to work on the construction of a bridge over the River Kwai to carry a new railway line to invade Burma. Their commander, Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), reminds Saito that the Geneva Conventions exempt officers from manual labour; Saito slaps him hard LESS