The Bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel "Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï" (1952) by Pierre Boulle. The film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943. The cast included William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, and Sessue Hayakawa. It was initially scripted by screenwriter Carl Foreman, who was later replaced by Michael Wilson. Both writers had to work in secret, as they were on the Hollywood blacklist and had fled to England in
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (original title in , literally "The Man Who Chased His Shadow") is the fifth novel in the "Millennium" series, focusing on the characters Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Written by David Lagercrantz, this is the second novel in the series not authored by the series' creator and author of the first three "Millennium" books, Stieg Larsson, who died of a heart attack in 2004. The novel was released worldwide on 7 September 2017. Following the events in Lagercrantz’s first novel in the