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Name: The Bridge On the River Kwai
Released: 1957-12-18
Cast: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald

The Bridge On the River Kwai

PG
2h 41m
1957

96%

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When British POWs build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventure The Bridge On The River Kwai. Spectacularly produced, The Bridge On The River Kwai captured the imagination of the public and won seven 1957 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Alec Guinness), and Best Director. Even it's theme song, an old WWII whistling tune, the Colonel Bogey March, became a massive hit. The Bridge On the River Kwai continues today as one of the most memorable cinematic experiences of all time.

Director:

David Lean

Producer:

Sam Spiegel

Writer:

Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, Pierre Boulle

Cast:

Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

96%

Critics Consensus: This complex war epic asks hard questions, resists easy answers, and boasts career-defining work from star Alec Guinness and director David Lean.

Reviews

Cahiers du Cinéma

André Bazin

There are very few examples each year of cinematic enterprises that are carried out with such intelligence and above all with such care. But the quality of this film must ultimately be put in its artistic place, and that place is not the highest.

One of the great, action-packed epics of the late 50s, The Bridge on the River Kwai is an exceptional case study about the hysteria of war and the pride that comes before the fall.

One of the greatest and most satisfying endings in all film history...

April 25, 2023

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Christian Science Monitor

B.R. Crisler

For all of its grim setting and tragic conclusion, The Bridge on the River Kwai becomes a slyly humorous study in the limitations as well as the stoical splendors of the British “military mind."

I have rarely seen, in a film of action, a better cast. In the end, then, it is the people who count, and as individuals, obstinate, proud, muddled, humiliated, fanatically intent on the task in hand: not as the puppets who infest most war films.

August 8, 2022

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