Copyright: Horizon Pictures (G.B.) Ltd. (in notice: Horizon Pictures (C B) Ltd.); 4Oct57; LP10231. William Holden (Shears), Alec Guiness (Col. Nicholson), Jack Hawkins (Maj. Warden), Sessue Hayakawa (Col. Saito), James Donald, Geoffrey Home. Two videodiscs in one jacket; on videodisc jacket: VLD 2010. Summary from OCLC (Worldcat database). Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. Source(s) used: 1) OCLC (Worldcat database), 3-14-96 2) videodisc jacket 3) Ross and Nash's The motion picture guide 1927-1983, p. 295 4) M/B/RS preliminary shelflist card.
Summary:
In World War II, British soldiers and their ranking officer, Colonel Nicholson, were captured by the Japanese and forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge. Meanwhile the British High Command has ordered a special commando team to destroy the bridge with a U.S. seaman known as Shears heading the raiding party. But by this time, the bridge has become a point of British pride to Nicholson.
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