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This is a long movie but time flies while watching it. What's totally cool is this was filmed in the tropics, Sri Lanka...which to me looks like Thailand. The women porters sure looked Thai to me, I wonder why they had attractive women hauling the gear and not men?
Anyway this film looks real! They built a real bridge! and that's a real train we see too! It's all very impressive, but without a story and characters that are interesting it won't work...
But this does work. Thanks to an interesting look inside prison camp life and the William Holden/Commandos story line.
Alec Guinness character, Colonel Nicholson has a wacky obsession of building a bridge to perfection and on schedule too, JUST as the Japanese army wants him to do, and this is where the satire and irony come from. I do think the director intended to have a bit of fun with the overly pompous Col. Nicholson.
All the brand name actors are amazing. The film is amazing.
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Director: David Lean
Writers: Pierre Boulle (novel), Carl Foreman (screenplay)
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Length: 2h 41min
A group of British soldiers in WWII are taken prisoner by the Japanese and sent to a POW work camp. After first resisting the idea of officers doing labor, the British Colonel does a face about and decides to build the best bridge he can for the Japanese. The American forces have a plan to destroy the bridge.Writers: Pierre Boulle (novel), Carl Foreman (screenplay)
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Length: 2h 41min
This is a long movie but time flies while watching it. What's totally cool is this was filmed in the tropics, Sri Lanka...which to me looks like Thailand. The women porters sure looked Thai to me, I wonder why they had attractive women hauling the gear and not men?
Anyway this film looks real! They built a real bridge! and that's a real train we see too! It's all very impressive, but without a story and characters that are interesting it won't work...
But this does work. Thanks to an interesting look inside prison camp life and the William Holden/Commandos story line.
Alec Guinness character, Colonel Nicholson has a wacky obsession of building a bridge to perfection and on schedule too, JUST as the Japanese army wants him to do, and this is where the satire and irony come from. I do think the director intended to have a bit of fun with the overly pompous Col. Nicholson.
All the brand name actors are amazing. The film is amazing.