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The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Theatrical
Dec 14, 1957
DVD / Blu-ray
Nov 21, 2000
Box Office
$44.9M
Budget
$2.8M
Return
16.0x
Theaters
1
Director
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Producer
Music
Studio
Horizon Pictures
Cast
Full credits →W
William Holden
Cmdr. Shears
A
Alec Guinness
Col. Nicholson
J
Jack Hawkins
Maj. Warden
S
Sessue Hayakawa
Col. Saito
J
James Donald
Maj. Clipton
G
Geoffrey Horne
Lt. Joyce
A
André Morell
Col. Green
P
Peter Williams
Capt. Reeves
J
John Boxer
Major Hughes
P
Percy Herbert
Grogan
H
Harold Goodwin
Baker
A
Ann Sears
Nurse
H
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Captain Kanematsu
K
Keiichirō Katsumoto
Lieutenant Miura
T
Tsai Chin
Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)
C
Christopher Greet
British Officer (uncredited)
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Quotes
See all →Conflict Between Duty and Humanity
Warden
You'll go on without me. That's an order. You're in command now, Shears.
Shears
I won't obey that order. You make me sick with your heroics. There's a stench of death about ya. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L pills. They go well together, don't they? And with you, it's just one thing or the other: Destroy a bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war. You and that Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind. Crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman. How to die by the rules when the only important thing is how to live like a human being. I'm not going to leave you here to die, Warden, because I don't care about your bridge and I don't care about your rules. If we go on, we go on together.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Desperate Choices and Dark Humour
Saito
Do you know what will happen to me if the bridge is not built on time?
Nicholson
I haven't the foggiest.
Saito
I'll have to kill myself. What would you do if you were me?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
