The Bridge on the River Kwai
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.
Drama, History, War
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Horizon Pictures (II)
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, Heihachirô Ôkawa as Captain Kanematsu, Keiichirô Katsumoto as Lieutenant Miura, Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung as Siamese Girl