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The Bridge on the River Kwai

7.8 161 mins Drama   History   War   1957
Horizon Pictures  
Director(s): David Lean

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Casts of The Bridge on the River Kwai

William Holden

as Cmdr. Shears

Alec Guinness

as Col. Nicholson

Jack Hawkins

as Maj. Warden

Sessue Hayakawa

as Col. Saito

James Donald

as Maj. Clipton

Geoffrey Horne

as Lt. Joyce

André Morell

as Col. Green

Peter Williams

as Capt. Reeves

John Boxer

as Major Hughes

Percy Herbert

as Grogan

Harold Goodwin

as Baker

Ann Sears

as Nurse

Heihachirō Ōkawa

as Captain Kanematsu

Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung

as Siamese Girl

Keiichirō Katsumoto

as Lieutenant Miura

Ngamta Suppapong

as Siamese Girl

Javanart Punynchoti

as Siamese Girl

Kannikar Dowklee

as Siamese Girl

Tsai Chin

as Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)

Christopher Greet

as British Officer (uncredited)

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