![]() They draft an American, Shears ( William Holden), into their effort (he has two valid excuses which, together, the Brits had already used to get him transferred to them). Meanwhile, the British government is planning a covert mission to blow that bridge up, since its existence will help the Japanese. Nicholson decides to keep everyone's morale up by making sure everyone does as good a job on the bridge as possible, making it the best bridge they can. Saito tries to demoralize the British troops, but fails because of Values Dissonance. The prisoners of war are being forced to build the bridge over the River Kwai, which when finished is supposed to help Japanese expansion. Colonel Nicholson ( Alec Guinness), the battalion's commander, and Major Clipton (James Donald), a medical officer. ![]() The story: a British battalion is captured in Thailand and sent to a Japanese prison camp run by Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). It's based on the French novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, of Planet of the Apes fame Boulle, who could neither read nor write English, was also credited for the screenplay adaptation due to actual screenwriters Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson being blacklisted. ![]() The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 World War II POW film directed by David Lean, about the construction of the bridges over the River Kwai, although it's heavily fictionalised. ![]()
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