The Bridge on the River Kwai

Name: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Uploaded: 1957-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 161 min
Description: 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.

7.82
January 1957
161 min

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.

Type:
MOVIE
Country:
GB
Genres:
Drama, History, War
Release:
October 1957
Production:
Horizon Pictures
Cast:
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Heihachirō Ōkawa, Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung, Keiichirō Katsumoto, Ngamta Suppapong, Javanart Punynchoti, Kannikar Dowklee, Tsai Chin, Christopher Greet
Tags:
japan, based on novel or book, resistance, river, world war ii, prisoner of war, thailand, bridge, burma, pacific war, bridge blowup, dramatic

The Bridge on the River Kwai

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