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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 | 2h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
Brief Synopsis
One of the greatest war movies ever made and a winner of seven 1957 Oscars®, including Best Picture. Set in a Japanese POW camp during WWII, a rigid British officer becomes obsessed with leading the P.O.W.s to build a strategic bridge for their captors.
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Cast and Crew
DIRECTOR
David Lean
CAST
William Holden
Jack Hawkins
Alec Guinness
Sessue Hayakawa
James Donald
André Morell
Peter Williams
John Boxer
Percy Herbert
Harold Goodwin
Ann Sears
Geoffrey Horne
PRODUCERS
Sam Spiegel
WRITERS
Michael Wilson
Carl Foreman
Pierre Boulle
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