The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Genres:

Drama, History, War

Novel: Pierre Boulle

Screenplay: Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson

Produced By: Sam Spiegel

Original Music Composer: Malcolm Arnold

Director Of Photography: Jack Hildyard

Art Direction: Donald M. Ashton

Sound Designer: John Cox, John W. Mitchell

Directed By: David Lean

Makeup Artist: Stuart Freeborn

Assistant Director: Ted Sturgis

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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 (William Holden), The Bridge on the River Kwai

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There’s always some further action to take.

— Pierre Boulle, The Bridge on the River Kwai

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