The Bridge on the River Kwai

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

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Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

Japanese prison camp commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) addressing just-arrived British Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) and his troops, seeds of conflict in David Lean's The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

We meet American prisoner Commander Shears (William Holden) and a fellow grave-digger (Harold Goodwin) schmoozing Lt. Miura (Keiichio Katsumoto) for sick-list time, before the Brits arrive at the Japanes prison camp in occupied Burma, in The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957.

The British prisoners led by Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) enter the Japanese prison camp in Burma whistling the jaunty Colonel Bogey March, in a famous early moment from David Lean's The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.