The Bridge on the River Kwai [Steelbook] (Blu-ray) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Holden, Alec Guinness & Jack Hawkins | |
Performer: | Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Peter Williams, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, K. Katsumoto & Henry Okawa | |
Directed by | David Lean | |
Edited by | Peter Taylor | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Henry Wilson & Carl Foreman | |
Composition by | Malcolm Arnold | |
Produced by | Sam Spiegel | |
Director of Photography: | Jack Hildyard |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1957 -
Best Actor: Alec Guinness
Academy Awards 1957 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson & Pierre Boulle
Academy Awards 1957 -
Best Cinematography: Jack Hildyard
Academy Awards 1957 -
Best Director: David Lean
Academy Awards 1957 -
Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1957 -
Best Original Score: Malcolm Arnold
Academy Awards 1957 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
...It's certainly weathered well thanks to its novel and ingenious approach to presenting multiple perspectives of the Second World War...
Total Film
5 stars out of 5 -- [I]ts combination of sly satire, poignancy and sheer excitement is still astonishing.
Total Film
The absence of button-pushing triumphalism is striking, as indeed is the long game played by Lean's direction.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
From sky to ground in two shots, and it already feels like we've traversed a great distance, with two and a half hours of skillful, suspenseful WWII adventure to go.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
...dedicates its final moments to detonating its own stiff upper lip.
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LarsenOnFilm
...Lean handles the climax with precision and suspense...
Chicago Sun-Times
...[T]wo compelling stories jelled into one sprawling action film...
Premiere
Product Description:
One of the all-time great war films, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is yet another classic from the marvelous David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DR. ZHIVAGO). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, a classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson (a fabulous Alec Guinness), the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans. Although credited to screenwriter Carl Foreman, the script was actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. The film garnered seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Guinness). The climax is one of the great finales in film history.
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