The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Genres
Drama History War

Release Date: Oct 11, 1957

Runtime: 161 minutes

Rating: 7.818/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • Horizon Pictures

Overview

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.

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Cast

William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald ,

Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Heihachirō Ōkawa, Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung, Keiichirō Katsumoto, Ngamta Suppapong, Javanart Punynchoti, Kannikar Dowklee, Tsai Chin, Christopher Greet

Crew

John Cox, Jack Hildyard, Stuart Freeborn, Carl Foreman, John W. Mitchell ,

Michael Wilson, Malcolm Arnold, Pierre Boulle, Sam Spiegel, David Lean, Donald M. Ashton, Peter Taylor, Ron Drinkwater, Ted Sturgis, A. B. Raj, George Partleton, Cecil F. Ford, Gus Agosti, Geoffrey Drake, Peter Dukelow, Archie Dansie, Peter Newbrook, John Wilson-Apperson