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Title:

The bridge on the river Kwai [videorecording] / Colombia Pictures presents a Sam Spiegel production ; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman ; Porduced by Sam psiegel ; directed by David Lean.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Colombia Pictures (distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ),

Copyright Date:

c2005 (1995, 1985, c1957)

Description:

1 videodisc (162 min.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Feature films
War films.
Bridge on the River Kwai (Motion picture)
Burma-Siam Railroad--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
Burma--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945--Drama.

Other Authors:

Lean, David, 1908-1991.
Spiegel, Sam.
Wilson, Michael, 1914-
Foreman, Carl.
Holden, William, 1918-1981.
Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.
Hawkins, Jack, 1910-1973.
Hayakawa, Sesshu, 1889-1973.
Donald, James, 1917-1993.
Sears, Ann.
Horne, Geoffrey.
Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994. Pont de la riviere Kwai.
Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, and introducing Goeffrey Horne. Based on Pont de la riviere Kwai / Pierre Boulle. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957. WWII 60th anniversary collection box set.

Summary:

British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)68135727

Locations:

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)