A portrait of the clash of wills between British POW officer Alec Guinness and tradition-bound Japanese officer Sessue Hayakawa over the building of a jungle railway bridge during WWII. William Holden is the cynical American POW who is forced to trek back to destroy the bridge.
Luxuriant classic with great Alex Guinness role
This is, as expected, a film about the futility of war, the horrendous treatment of Allied prisoners by the Japanese, and tales of daring and bravery.
What I had not expected is a depiction of the morality of obeying the law, and of obsession.
The film comprises three acts.
In the first act, we see the Allied prisoners set to work building The Bridge, and a power struggle between Alex Guinness' Allied commanding officer, and the Japanese camp commander. Guinness' character wants the Japanese to obey the Geneva conventions that officers (not their men) may not do manual labour.
In the second act, Guinness 'wins' after enduring much subhuman treatme...
the bridge on the river kwai
Did not like it at all , to old and very slow for my taste , just goes on bout building a bridge in the war
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
Ironic adventure epic with many fine moments but too many centres of interest and an unforgivably confusing climax. It is distinguished by Guinness's portrait of the English CO who is heroic in his initial stand against the Japs but finally cannot bear to
Director David Lean made his name with smaller, more intimate movies like Brief Encounter and Oliver Twist, but by the time of The Bridge On The River Kwai his epic cinema output was in full swing. The story takes place in 1943, in a POW camp in Burma, where the Japanese are building a railway line between Malaysia and Rangoon. Or, rather, where British Army prisoners are building it, amid conditions of utter brutality and slavery.
For Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) the broad canvas of the war narrows to this particular task - and he and his men pour their energy into it as a means of maintaining their discipline, but also holding on to their marbles. The qu...
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