A British commander in a POW camp becomes so obsessed with building a bridge for the Japanese that he forgets that they are the enemy
War
RATINGS
8.1
/10
87
/100
RUNTIME
161 min
AGE RATING
PG
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
LANGUAGE
English
DIRECTOR
David Lean
CAST
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Plot
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.