The Bridge on the River Kwai

David Lean
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
1957
United Kingdom
Completed
English
2h 41m
Overview
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.