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Genres:
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Adventure /
Drama /
War /
Music
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Director:
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David Lean
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Actors:
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Geoffrey Horne,
Harold Goodwin,
John Boxer,
Peter Williams,
Ann Sears,
Heihachiro Okawa,
Keiichiro Katsumoto,
M.R.B. Chakrabandhu,
William Holden,
Alec Guinness,
Jack Hawkins,
Sessue Hayakawa,
James Donald,
André Morell,
Percy Herbert
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Duration:
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161 min.
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Rating:
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(8.4/10)101.5
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Plot Summary:
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The veil deals with the situation of British prisoners of wage war with during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam iron horse. Their instinct is to sabotage the link but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson, they are persuaded that the connection should be constructed as a symbol of British attitude, morale a feelings and dignity in adverse circumstances. At pre-eminent, the prisoners revere Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles in spite of the forward of the Japanese commandant Saito. He is an honorable ... but arrogant people, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the link is a cairn to British screwball, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle acquire of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies take sent a mission into the jungle, led about Warden and an American, Shears, to blow up the tie.
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Luxuriant classic with great Alex Guinness role
This is, as expected, a film about the futility of war, the horrendous treatment of Allied prisoners by the Japanese, and tales of daring and bravery.
What I had not expected is a depiction of the morality of obeying the law, and of obsession.
The film comprises three acts.
In the first act, we see the Allied prisoners set to work building The Bridge, and a power struggle between Alex Guinness' Allied commanding officer, and the Japanese camp commander. Guinness' character wants the Japanese to obey the Geneva conventions that officers (not their men) may not do manual labour.
In the second act, Guinness 'wins' after enduring much subhuman treatment. But his behaviour evolves in an unexpected way: he determines to show the Japanese, now that th...
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
Director David On's multi-Oscar-winning mausoleum to saving outward appearances in a Japanese prisoner-of-war theatrical is wonderfully judged when it's concerned with British colonel Alec Guinness and his row with his Japanese counterpart (Sessue Hayakawa). It's strangely fudged, however, when American escapee William Holden tries to destroy the strategic span Guinness and his men have built. Nevertheless, this film was rewarded with seven Academy Awards, including anyone for Jack Hildyard's stupefying CinemaScope photography on locations in what was then called Ceylon, and it was a massive box-office hit.
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
Top dog David Lean made his luminary with smaller, more intimate movies like Brief Face and Oliver Eccentric, but around the time of The Bridge On The River Kwai his epic cinema output was in exhaustive swing. The story takes place in 1943, in a POW ham in Burma, where the Japanese are building a iron horse line between Malaysia and Rangoon. Or, rather, where British Army prisoners are construction it, in the thick of conditions of utter brutality and slavery. Because of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) the broad canvas of the battle narrows to this particular major effort - and he and his men pour their vigour into it as a means of maintaining their discipline, but also holding on to their marbles. The question is, how by a long shot wishes Nicholson go to ...
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