Bridge On The River Kwai

Date: 1957
Type: War / Drama
Rating:

4/5
Colour: Yes
Director: David Lean
Producer: Sam Spiegel

Comment/Synopsis

This is David Lean's classic British war film of a group of prisoners of war building a railway under the brutal regeime of their Japanese guards.

Actors

William Holden

Alec Guinness

Jack Hawkins

James Donald
Sessue Hayakawa
Geoffrey Horne

Andre Morell

Percy Herbert

Harold Goodwin
Ann Sears

Oscars

Won - Best Picture
Won - Best Actor - Alec Guinness
Won - Best Director - David Lean
Nomination - Best Supporting Actor - Sessue Hayakawa
Won - Writing, Cinematography, Editing, Music

Music
Malcolm Arnold

Production
Columbia Pictures