Cast
William Holden (Shears)Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson)Jack Hawkins (Major Warden)Sessue Hayakawa (Colonel Saito)James Donald (Major Clipton)Geoffrey Horne (Lieutenant Joyce)André Morell (Colonel Green)Peter Williams (Captain Reeves)John Boxer (Major Hughes)Percy Herbert (Grogan)Harold Goodwin (Baker)Ann Sears (Nurse)Heihachirô Ôkawa (Captain Kanematsu)Keiichirô Katsumoto (Lieutenant Miura)M.R.B. Chakrabandhu (Yai)Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung (Siamese Girl)Ngamta Suphaphongs (Siamese Girl)Javanart Punynchoti (Siamese Girl)
Director
David Lean
Synopsis
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
