DVD 161 min. IMDB 8.4

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War

William Holden	Commander/Major Shears
Alec Guinness	Colonel Nicholson
Jack Hawkins	Major Warden, Demolition Expert, Force 316
Sessue Hayakawa	Colonel Saito
James Donald	Major Clipton, Medical Officer
Geoffrey Horne	Lieutenant Joyce
André Morell	Colonel Green, Commander, Force 316
Peter Williams	Major Reeves, English Engineer
John Boxer	Major Hughes
Percy Herbert	Grogan

Regisseur	David Lean
Producent	Sam Spiegel
Schrijver	Pierre Boulle; Michael Wilson

British WW2 prisoners of war are given the task, by their Japanese captors, of building a railway bridge in a harsh Asian jungle. Led by Col Nicholson, a stereotypical British officer, the prisoners score a moral victory over the Japanese by not only building the bridge, but running the whole show. Unknown to Nicholson, an allied demolition team are planning a spectacular opening for the bridge.