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Author:

Bridge on the River Kwai (Motion picture)

Title:

The bridge on the River Kwai [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson ; produced by Sam Spiegel ; directed by David Lean.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Drama.
Prisoners of war--Abuse of--Drama.
Prisoners of war--Great Britain--Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
War films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.
Holden, William, 1918-1981.
Hawkins, Jack, 1910-1973.
Hayakawa, Sesshū, 1889-1973.
Foreman, Carl.
Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978.
Spiegel, Sam.
Lean, David, 1908-1991.
Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994. Pont de la rivière Kwaï.
Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957. Bonus features: William Holden and Alec Guinness on "The Steve Allen Show"; archival audio of William Holden narrating the premiere; "Crossing the bridge" picture-in-graphs track and more. Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa.

Summary:

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge for their WWII Japanese captors, unaware of an Allied mission to blow it up.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)732357872

UPC:

043396379695

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)