The Bridge on the River Kwai (Blu-ray) PG

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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 42 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: June 7, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1957
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1957 - Best Actor: Alec Guinness
Academy Awards 1957 - Best Adapted Screenplay: Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson & Pierre Boulle
Academy Awards 1957 - Best Cinematography: Jack Hildyard
Academy Awards 1957 - Best Director: David Lean
Academy Awards 1957 - Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1957 - Best Original Score: Malcolm Arnold
Academy Awards 1957 - Best Picture: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 54,576
...[A] masterpiece...purely enjoyable...
USA Today
Nov 17, 2000
Rating: 10/10 -- Suffice it to say, it's a masterpiece... and an epic one at that. Full Review
PopMatters
Feb 23, 2015
It is a whale of a story, and in the telling of it, British Director David Lean does a whale of a job. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Feb 18, 2009
5 stars out of 5 -- [I]ts combination of sly satire, poignancy and sheer excitement is still astonishing.
Total Film
Jun 1, 2011
...Lean handles the climax with precision and suspense...
Chicago Sun-Times
Apr 18, 1999
Has no one else found it highly peculiar that damn near everybody's choice for the best movie of (let's say) the decade should be dedicated, inferentially but absolutely, to the proposition that Courage is Madness and Cowardice is Best? Full Review
Village Voice
Feb 3, 2014
Rating: 4/4 -- It is a stirring drama of World War II, in which Spiegel has had the excellent help of British director David Lean, in charge of the action, and of a fine company of international players. Full Review
New York Daily News
Feb 23, 2015

Product Description:

One of the all-time great war films, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is yet another classic from the marvelous David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DR. ZHIVAGO). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, a 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 (a fabulous Alec Guinness), the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans. Although credited to screenwriter Carl Foreman, the script was actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. The film garnered seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Guinness). The climax is one of the great finales in film history.

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