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Status: Released

Runtime: 161

Budget: $3,000,000

Revenue: $33,300,000

Language(s): en, ja, th

Webpage: -

Release Info

  • Released: 1957-10-02
    Rated: PG

  • Released: 1957-12-14
    Rated: PG

  • Released: 1957-12-25
    Rated: -

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  • El Puente Sobre el Río Kwai
  • Bron över floden Kwai
  • A Ponte do Rio Kwai

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

(1957)

8.8/10 (6 votes)

Overview

A 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.

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Be Happy in Your Work...

Crew

Director: David Lean
Writers: Michael J. Wilson, Carl Foreman

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Cast

William Holden
as Cmdr. Shears
Jack Hawkins
as Maj. Warden
Alec Guinness
as Col. Nicholson
Sessue Hayakawa
as Col. Saito

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Columbia Pictures