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Three features. One of the all-time great war films, 'The Bridge On The River Kwai is from the marvelous David Lean ('Lawrence Of Arabia', 'Dr. Zhivago'). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, a classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans. Although credited to screenwriter Carl Foreman, the script was actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. The film garnered seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The climax is one of the great finales in film history. Also includes 'Lawrence Of Arabia' and 'Passage To India'.Product Identifiers
ProducerSam Spiegel
EAN5035822329911
eBay Product ID (ePID)48656251
Product Key Features
ActorVictor Banerjee, Alec Guinness, K. Katsumoto, Saeed Jaffrey, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, James Fox, Anthony Quayle, Jack Hawkins, William Holden, Peter O'Toole, Clive Swift, Peggy Ashcroft, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, Judy Davis, Henry Okawa, Andre Morell, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Peter Williams, James Donald, Nigel Havers, Percy Herbert
Film/TV TitleDavid Lean Collection (Box Set)
DirectorDavid Lean
Release Year2005
Additional Product Features
Certificate12A/12
Number of Discs1
ComposerMalcolm Arnold
AwardsBest Director 1957 - David Lean, Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published 1957 - Michael Wilson, Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published 1957 - Carl Foreman, Best Picture 1957 -, Best Actor In A Leading Role 1957 - Alec Guinness
ScreenwriterCalder Willingham, Carl Foreman, Michael Henry Wilson
AuthorPierre Boulle, E.M. Forster
EditorPeter Taylor
Movie/TV TitleDavid Lean Collection (Box Set)