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The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Calorie Rating: 226
Released: 1957-10-11
MPAA Rating: PG
Running Time: 161 Minutes
Budget: 3000000
Revenue 44908000
Studios: Horizon Pictures,


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.

Director / Directors

David Lean
Director
Ted Sturgis
Assistant Director
A. B. Raj
Second Unit First Assistant Director


Cast

William Holden
Character: Cmdr. Shears
Alec Guinness
Character: Col. Nicholson
Jack Hawkins
Character: Maj. Warden

Sessue Hayakawa
Character: Col. Saito
James Donald
Character: Maj. Clipton
Geoffrey Horne
Character: Lt. Joyce

André Morell
Character: Col. Green
Peter Williams
Character: Capt. Reeves
John Boxer
Character: Major Hughes

Percy Herbert
Character: Grogan
Harold Goodwin
Character: Baker
Ann Sears
Character: Nurse

Heihachirō Ōkawa
Character: Captain Kanematsu
Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung
Character: Siamese Girl
Keiichirô Katsumoto
Character: Lieutenant Miura

Ngamta Suphaphongs
Character: Siamese Girl
Javanart Punynchoti
Character: Siamese Girl
Kannikar Dowklee
Character: Siamese Girl


Production and Crew

Carl Foreman
Screenplay
Sam Spiegel
Producer

Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
Donald M. Ashton
Art Direction

John Cox
Sound Designer
John W. Mitchell
Sound Designer
Stuart Freeborn
Makeup Artist

Michael Wilson
Screenplay
Ron Drinkwater
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