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Synopsis
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai, written by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel and the film's screenplay are fictional; they use the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943 as historical setting. It stars William Holden, Alec Guinness, and Jack Hawkins, with Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, and Geoffrey Horne in supporting roles.
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Poster by "Copyright © 1958 Columbia Pictures Corporation ." (Public domain).
Credits
- Producer
- Sam Spiegel
- Director
- David Lean
- Screenplay
- Michael Wilson, Pierre Boulle, Calder Willingham, Carl Foreman
- Director of Photography
- Jack Hildyard
- Original Music Composer
- Malcolm Arnold
- Editor
- Peter Taylor
Box office · USD, worldwide
×9.07return on budget
Cast · 13
Trailer
3:23Columbia Pictures. Public domain — from Wikimedia Commons, re-encoded and served from our own storage.
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