Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 162 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
- japan
- based on novel or book
- resistance
- river
- world war ii
- prisoner of war
- thailand
- bridge
- burma
- pacific war
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
William Holden
Cmdr. Shears
Alec Guinness
Col. Nicholson
Jack Hawkins
Maj. Warden
Sessue Hayakawa
Col. Saito
- James Donald — Maj. Clipton
- Geoffrey Horne — Lt. Joyce
- André Morell — Col. Green
- Peter Williams — Capt. Reeves
- John Boxer — Major Hughes
- Percy Herbert — Grogan
- Harold Goodwin — Baker
- Ann Sears — Nurse
- Heihachirō Ōkawa — Captain Kanematsu
- Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung — Siamese Girl
- Keiichirō Katsumoto — Lieutenant Miura
- Directed
- David Lean
- Written
- Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 2,400 ratings
- Studio
- Horizon Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
