Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James
Donald, Geoffrey Horne, Andre Morell, Peter Williams, Percy Herbert, Harold
Goodwin, Ann Sears, K. Katsumoto, Henry Okawa.
Director: David Lean.
Academy Awards: 7 awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Guinness)
Based on Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel.
Colonel Nicholson is the British commander of English POWs in Burma. He and his men are forced to build a bridge for their Japanese captors. The commander becomes so obsessive about the bridge building that he loses all perspective on why he was sent to Burma in the first place. He is so in love with his own creation that he at first opposes the attempts of British and American intelligence officers to blow up the bridge.
Script actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson.
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