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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Directed by David Lean
“It spans a whole new world of entertainment!”
Drama, History, War · 2h 42m
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.
Cast
William Holden
Alec Guinness
Jack Hawkins
Sessue Hayakawa
James Donald
Geoffrey Horne
André Morell
Peter Williams
Percy Herbert
Harold Goodwin
Ann Sears
Crew
- Director
- David Lean
- Screenplay
- Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman
- Novel
- Pierre Boulle
- Director of Photography
- Jack Hildyard
- Original Music Composer
- Malcolm Arnold
- Editor
- Peter Taylor
- Producer
- Sam Spiegel
Details
- Release date
- 1957-10-11
- Runtime
- 2h 42m
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Japanese, Thai, English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Horizon Pictures
- Budget
- $2,800,000
- Box office
- $44,908,000