Bridge on the River Kwai (Motion picture) (DLC)no2003007886 Guns of Navarone (Motion picture) (DLC)no2008060002
Notes:
Bridge on the River Kwai special features: Crossing the bridge: picture-in-graphics track; Making of The bridge on the River Kwai; The Steve Allen show with William Holden & Alec Guinness; The bridge on the River Kwai premiere narrated by William Holden; rise and fall of a jungle giant; USC short film introduced by William Holden; an appreciation by filmmaker John Milius; photo gallery; trailers. Guns of Navarone special features: The Resistance dossier of Navarone; commentary with film historian Stephen J. Rubin; commentary with director J. Lee Thompson; 3 documentaries; 6 featurettes; narration free prologue; message from Carl Foreman. Bridge on the River Kwai: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins. Guns of Navarone: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn.
Summary:
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, 162 min.): British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge for their WWII Japanese captors, unaware of an Allied mission to blow it up. Guns of Navarone (1961, 156 min.): A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous mission to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns to that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. The team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
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