(PG) UK – 2 hr 41 min
1957 · d. David Lean
Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
In a sweltering jungle P.O.W. camp, a group of Allied soldiers are forced by their Japanese captors to construct a railway bridge across the River Kwai. But the project quickly develops into a battle of wills between an obsessive British officer (Alec Guinness) and the camp commander.