The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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 acqui...
Rating: 7.8
Genres War, Drama, Adventure
Original language: en
IMDb tt0050212
Stars
Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson
William Holden as Shears
Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito
James Donald as Major Clipton
Geoffrey Horne as Lieutenant Joyce
Creators
David Lean (Director)
Sam Spiegel (Producer)
Pierre Boulle (Writer)
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