The Bridge On The River Kwai
161 minutes,
UK/USA (1957), PG
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(4.8 / 149 votes)
(4.8 / 149 votes)
The true story of the superhuman efforts of Allied POWs, who amid inhuman conditions must build a bridge to aid the Japanese war effort - but what comes first, the bridge or Allied interests?
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The Bridge On The River Kwai: Director David Lean made his name with smaller, more intimate movies like Brief Encounter and Oliver Twist, but by the time of The Bridge On The River Kwai his epic cinema output was in full swing. The story takes place in 1943, in a POW camp in Burma, where the Japanese are building a railway line between Malaysia and Rangoon...
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