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The Bridge on the River Kwai

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

Director

David Lean

Year

Genre

adventure, drama, war

Box Office

$27,200,000

Production

Horizon Pictures

Awards

Won 7 Oscars. 30 wins & 8 nominations total

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Shears

Colonel Nicholson

Major Warden

Colonel Saito

Sessue Hayakawa

Major Clipton

Lieutenant Joyce

Colonel Green

AndrÃ© Morell

Captain Reeves

Major Hughes

Grogan

Baker

Nurse

Captain Kanematsu (as HeihachirÃ´ 'Henry' Ã”kawa)

HeihachirÃ´ Ã”kawa

Lieutenant Miura (as Keiichiro Katsumoto) (as K. Katsumoto)

KeiichirÃ´ Katsumoto

Yai

M.R.B. Chakrabandhu

Siamese Girl

Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung

Siamese Girl

Ngamta Suphaphongs

Siamese Girl

Javanart Punynchoti

Siamese Girl

Kannikar Dowklee

Tokyo Rose (voice)

British Officer

Christopher Greet

Bit part

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British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

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Director: David Lean

Writer: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson

Production: Horizon Pictures

Genre: adventure, drama, war

Year: 1957

MetaScore: 87/100

ImdbRating: 8.2

BoxOffice: $27,200,000

Released: 14 Dec 1957

Awards: Won 7 Oscars. 30 wins & 8 nominations total

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