Stars: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Horne, Andre Morell, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Percy Herbert, Ann Sears, Peter Williams, Harold Goodwin, K. Katsumoto, Henry Okawa, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee, Saeed Jaffrey, Clive Swift

Director: David Lean

Summary: Three features. One of the all-time great war films, 'The Bridge On The River Kwai is from the marvelous David Lean ('Lawrence Of Arabia', 'Dr. Zhivago'). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, 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. Although credited to screenwriter Carl Foreman, the script was actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. The film garnered seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The climax is one of the great finales in film history. Also includes 'Lawrence Of Arabia' and 'Passage To India'.

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Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1957
Release Date:	October 17, 2005
Runtime:	529 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R P 3299
Keywords:	Collection, River, War, Box, Bridge, Kwai, Passage, David, Set, Lawrence, Arabia, India, Lean
Genre:	War