CAST:
William Holden (Shears),
Alec Guinness (pukovnik Nicholson),
Jack Hawkins (major Warden),
Sessue Hayakawa (pukovnik Saito),
James Donald (major Clipton)

SCRIPT:
Carl Foreman,
Michael Wilson (based on novel by Pierre Boulle)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jack Hildyard

MUSIC:
Malcolm Arnold

EDITING:
Peter Taylor

Synopsis:

The year is 1943. British soldiers, captured by the Japanese in Siam, are building a railroad from Bangkok to Rangoon. A special platoon led by colonel Nicholson has an order to build a bridge over the river Kwai. That bridge would be a vital road for Japanese war forces. After British officers receive an order to work together with their soldiers, there emerges a moral battle between colonel Nicholson and the Japanese colonel Saito. In spite of the torture that he has to endure, the British officer ends up winning. For Nicholson, the bridge becomes an obsession and a symbol of British invincibility. At the same time, a small group of alliance’s Special Forces, led by British major Warden and American Shears, is sent to the river Kwai. Their mission is to destroy the bridge right after its opening and so prevent the Japanese from sending their forces across the river…

color, 161'