Movie Details
Theatrical Release:December 14th, 1957
On DVD & Blu-ray:November 21st, 2000
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Movie Budget:$2,800,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$44,908,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Horizon Pictures
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The Bridge on the River Kwai Quotes
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.
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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.
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