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Name: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Director: David Lean
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1957-10-02 00:00:00

Total quotes: 2

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The 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 , the commander who supervised the bridge

Genres:

Drama, History, War

Full production credits:

Communicator Carl Foreman

Communicator Michael Wilson

Character Cmdr. Shears

Communicator William Holden

Character William Holden

Character Alec Guinness

Character Jack Hawkins

Character Sessue Hayakawa

Character James Donald

Character Geoffrey Horne

Character Andre Morell

Character Peter Williams

Character John Boxer

Character Percy Herbert

Character Harold Goodwin

Character Ann Sears

Character Heihachirô Ôkawa

Character Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung

Character Keiichirô Katsumoto

Novel Pierre Boulle

Screenplay Carl Foreman

Producer Sam Spiegel

Original music composer Malcolm Arnold

Director of photography Jack Hildyard

Art direction Donald M. Ashton

Sound designer John Cox

Sound designer John W. Mitchell

Director David Lean

Makeup artist Stuart Freeborn

Screenplay Michael Wilson

Assistant director Ted Sturgis

Character Cmdr. Shears

Character Col. Nicholson

Character Maj. Warden

Character Col. Saito

Character Maj. Clipton

Character Lt. Joyce

Character Col. Green

Character Capt. Reeves

Character Major Hughes

Character Grogan

Character Baker

Character Nurse

Character Captain Kanematsu

Character Siamese Girl

Character Lieutenant Miura

Last updated: 2019-07-29

Characters in ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’

Cmdr. Shears

“You make me sick with your heroics! There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills—they go well together, don't they? And with you it's just one thing or the other: destroy a bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war! You and Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules—when the only important thing is how to live like a human being!... I'm not going to leave you here to die, Warden, because I don't care about your bridge and I don't care about your rules. If we go on, we go on together.”

— Cmdr. Shears, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Tagged: Best Military Movies, heroics, Death, Plague

“There’s always some further action to take.”

— Pierre Boulle, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Tagged: actions, human actions, ways, Life, plans, alternatives

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