The Bridge on the River Kwai [videorecording] / a Horizon Picture ; [released by] Columbia Pictures Corporation. ; directed by David Lean ; written by Pierre Boulle ; produced by Sam Spiegel.
Videocassette release of the 1957 motion picture. Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. Hi-fi. William Holden (Shears), Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson), Jack Hawkins (Major Warden), Sessue Hayakawa (Colonel Saito), James Donald (Major Clipton), Geoffrey Horne (Lieutenant Joyce).
Summary:
Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers and their ranking officer, Colonel Nicholson are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge. Despite cruel treatment by the brutal Colonel Saito, Nicholson displays unyielding courage and the bridge becomes a matter of obsessive British pride to him. Meanwhile, the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy the vital span.
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