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Bridge on the River Kwai
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$24.95USD
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Status:
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Released:
2000-11-21
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Bridge on the River Kwai DVD Cast & Features
Cast:
William Holden
,
Alec Guinness
,
Jack Hawkins
,
Sessue Hayakawa
,
Geoffrey Horne
,
James Donald
,
Andre Morell
,
Peter Williams
,
John Boxer
,
Percy Herbert
,
Harold Goodwin
,
Ann Sears
,
Henry Okawa
Director(s):
David Lean
Features:
Digitally mastered audio and anamorphic video
Audio: English 5.1 [Dolby Digital] and 2-channel [Dolby Surround], French, Spanish, Portuguese
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai
Interactive and animated menus
Scene selections with motion
Theatrical trailers
Talent files
Bridge on the River Kwai DVD Details
Video:
Enchanced Widescreen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Dolby Digital Surround
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, ko, th
Running Time:
162
Genre:
Action
Adventure
Item Weight:
1
UPC:
043396052789
Product Code:
CTR5278DVD
Format:
DVD
Year:
1957
Studio:
Sony Pictures
Bridge on the River Kwai DVD Summary
The Bridge on the River Kwai
opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (
Sessue Hayakawa
) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (
Alec Guinness
).
Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over the river Kwai, which will be used to transport Japanese munitions.
Nicholson refuses, despite all the various "persuasive" devices at Saito's disposal.
Finally, Nicholson agrees, not so much to cooperate with his captor as to provide a morale-boosting project for the military engineers under his command.
The colonel will prove that, by building a better bridge than Saito's men could build, the British soldier is a superior being even when under the thumb of the enemy.
As the bridge goes up, Nicholson becomes obsessed with completing it to perfection, eventually losing sight of the fact that it will benefit the Japanese.
Meanwhile, American POW Shears (
William Holden
), having escaped from the camp, agrees to save himself from a court martial by leading a group of British soldiers back to the camp to destroy Nicholson's bridge.
Upon his return, Shears realizes that Nicholson's mania to complete his project has driven him mad.
Filmed in Ceylon,
Bridge on the River Kwai
won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for the legendary British filmmaker
David Lean
, and Best Actor for Guinness.
It also won Best Screenplay for
Pierre Boulle
, the author of the novel on which the film was based, even though the actual writers were blacklisted writers
Carl Foreman
and
Michael Wilson
, who were given their Oscars under the table.