The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.(imdb)

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Genres: Drama, Adventure, War, History

Country: UK, USA

Directed By: David Lean

Written By: Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, Pierre Boulle

Starring: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, William Holden, James Donald, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Percy Herbert, Peter Williams, Harold Goodwin, John Boxer, Heihachiro Okawa

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This is a film that I know is really good, but I'm always a bit surprised by just how good it is every time I see it. It's a masterfully constructed film, but the real revelation this time was just how extraordinary Alec Guinness is. He really makes the most of a wonderfully rich and complex character ... someone who's totally barking mad, while simultaneously in complete control of his faculties and capable of making a pretty persuasive case that his madness is sanity.
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very good plot, an interesting war movie. There was some orientalist gaze but also the criticism of imperialism. I like the coronal character and his ironic end.
May 29	ZephSilver	70 _73%
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Great David Lean movie with stellar performs es throughout, particularly stars Alec Guinness and a typically cynical William Holden
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Oct 10, 2019	mandy	9 _98%
Brilliant - beautifully filmed and strong performances poses some great questions about the nature of duty and pride.
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Sep 26, 2019	Neonman	90 _91%
Very humane and thoughtfully written story of POWs, with particular attention given to the contrasting principles of the British colonel and the POW camp commander. Like most good genre films, particular war films, has a main message that differs from its contemporaries. Extraordinarily tense climax, and since I'm a fan of delicious ironies, they just made it all the more better.
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Long, slow film about whistling British prisoners of war, who happened to remain remarkably healthy despite no food; I am not sure how my father lost so much weight when he was out there! Apparently, the first attempt to build a bridge didnt meet health and safety standards, and so with true British phlegm, a much better bridge was built, entirely from British stiff upper lips and good ol' British engineering know-how. I must say I liked the cameo of the cast of "It aint half hot Mum" at the end
Aug 09, 2019	bal3x	70 _71%
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