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Uniform Title Bridge on the River Kwai (Motion picture)
Title The bridge on the River Kwai / Columbia Pictures presents a Sam Spiegel production ; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman ; director of photography, Jack Hildyard ; produced by Sam Spiegel ; directed by David Lean.

Publication Info. Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment : Columbia Tristar, [1957]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI    Check Shelf
Edition Widescreen.
Description 1 videodisc (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (2.55:1) presentation; Dolby digital.
Cast William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Andre Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Henry Okawa, Keiichiro Katsumoto, M.R.B. Chakrabandhu, Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung, Ngamta Suphaphongs, Javanart Punynchoti, Kannikar Dowklee, and introducting Geoffrey Horne.
Credits Art director, Donald M. Ashton ; wardrobe, John Apperson ; chief editor, Peter Taylor ; music by Malcolm Arnold ; played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Note Based on Pont de la rivière Kwaï by Pierre Boulle.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.
Issued as part of the WWII, 60th anniversary collection box set.
Summary British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
Note Special features: Talent files (David Lean, William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa); Theatrical trailers.
Awards Winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture for 1957.
Language In English, dubbed French, dubbed Spanish or dubbed Portuguese with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai ; Closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Burma-Siam Railroad -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma -- Drama.
Burma -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war.
Genre/Form War films.
Feature films.
Added Author Spiegel, Sam.
Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978.
Foreman, Carl.
Hildyard, Jack.
Lean, David, 1908-1991.
Holden, William, 1918-1981.
Hawkins, Jack, 1910-1973.
Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.
Hayakawa, Sesshū, 1889-1973.
Donald, James, 1917-1993.
Morell, André, 1909-1978.
Williams, Peter, 1915-2003
Boxer, John, 1909-1982.
Herbert, Percy, 1920-1992.
Goodwin, Harold, 1917-2004.
Sears, Ann, 1933-1992.
Horne, Geoffrey.
Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994 Pont de la rivière Kwaï.
Columbia Pictures.
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Added Title WWII, 60th anniversary collection box set.
ISBN 1404987436 set
9781404987432 set
Music No. 11526LT3 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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