The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
95 %
Reviews Counted: 41 Fresh: 39 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 47 mins
Synopsis:
One of the all-time great war films, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is yet another classic from the marvelous David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DR. ZHIVAGO). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, a classic story of English POWs in Burma... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald
Director: David Lean
Screenwriter: Michael Henry Wilson, Carl Foreman
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Composer: Malcolm Arnold
Screenwriter: Michael Henry Wilson, Carl Foreman
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Composer: Malcolm Arnold
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Reviews
Guinness, Lean and British war cinema have never been better.
02/19/08 05:50 PM
A gripping drama, expertly put together and handled with skill in all departments.
02/19/08 05:50 PM
Top Critic
For what it is, it ain't bad, though it serves mainly as an illustration of the ancient quandary of revisionist moviemakers: if all you do is systematically invert cliches, you simply end up creating new ones.
12/13/06 11:18 AM
Top Critic Alec Guinness' outstanding performance is one of the many things that work in David Lean's intriguing epic.
11/08/06 05:31 PM
Still one of the most rousing war films, Lean's epic is rich in characters and marked by an ironic and ambiguous POV in the way that it depicts the conflict between Guinness, Hayakawa, and Holden, as individuals and symbols of their national cultures.
07/15/06 06:28 PM
Alec Guinness won his only non-honorary Oscar for this film (did you know he'd be nominated for writing the following year?), and boy is it deserved.
02/23/06 03:16 AM
A classic example of a film that fudges the issues it raises.
02/09/06 03:16 AM
Epic wartime storytelling at its most vibrant and satisfying.
11/09/05 05:33 AM
One of the best war movies, mixed with one of the best action movies, mixed with one of Alex Guinness' best performances mixed with a killer score? One of the greats.
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