The Bridge on the River Kwai by the other prisoners. Julie Summers, in her book "The Colonel of Tamarkan", writes that Boulle, who had been a prisoner of war in Thailand, created the fictional Nicholson character as an amalgam of his memories of collaborating French officers. He strongly denied the claim that the book was anti-British, although many involved in the film itself (including Alec Guinness) felt otherwise. Ernest Gordon, a survivor of the railway construction and POW camps described in the novel/film, stated in a 1962 book, "Through the Valley of the Kwai": "In Pierre Boulle's book "The Bridge over the River Kwai" and the
The Man Who Never Was (The Sarah Jane Adventures) Sky's room and she walks in on him hanging up a picture drawn by Clyde, titled, "Sky's Room". As a final montage of her past adventures in the series play, Sarah Jane voices over: The episode closes over an image of Earth with the on-screen text, "And the story goes on... forever." The Man Who Never Was (The Sarah Jane Adventures) The Man Who Never Was is a two-part episode and final story of "The Sarah Jane Adventures" which was broadcast on CBBC on 17 and 18 October 2011. It is the third and final story of the fifth series,