David Lean in scale and more extensively released internationally. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) was based on a novel by Pierre Boulle recounting the story of British and American prisoners of war trying to survive in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. The film stars William Holden and Alec Guinness and became the highest-grossing film of 1957 in the United States. It won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness, who had battled with Lean to give more depth to his role as an obsessively correct British commander who is
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