The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Director

David Lean

Cast

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson

William Holden as “Commander” Shears

Jack Hawkins as Major Warden

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito

James Donald as Major Clipton

André Morell as Colonel Green

Peter Williams as Captain Reeves

John Boxer as Major Hughes

Percy Herbert as Grogan

Harold Goodwin as Baker

Writers

Carl Foreman (screenplay)

Michael Wilson (screenplay)

Pierre Boulle (novel)


Summary

British POWs are ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance and are happy to sabotage and delay the progress until their commanding officer orders them to continue the work unhindered to its completion.
British POWs are ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance and are happy to sabotage and delay the progress until their commanding officer orders them to continue the work unhindered to its completion.

Genre

War, Drama, Adventure

Released

December 14, 1957 (US)

Runtime

2hrs 41min

MPAA

PG, for mild war violence

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