It spans a whole new world of entertainment!|Oct. 11, 1957|United Kingdom | United States|161 Min.|PG
Genre: Drama;History;War
Description: **The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) – Full Movie in English 720p**
**Plot Summary:**
In early 1943, a new group of British prisoners of war arrives at a Japanese camp in Burma, led by Colonel Nicholson. Among the prisoners is Commander Shears of the U.S. Navy, who describes the harsh conditions of the camp. Nicholson prohibits any escape attempts, as their orders from headquarters were to surrender, and escaping could be seen as disobedience. The surrounding jungle makes escape nearly impossible.
The camp’s commander, Colonel Saito, informs the prisoners that everyone, including officers, must work on constructing a railway bridge over the River Kwai to connect Bangkok and Rangoon. Nicholson opposes this, citing the Geneva Conventions, which exempt officers from manual labor. When the enlisted men are sent to the bridge site, Saito threatens to execute the officers but is stopped by Major Clipton, the British medical officer, who warns that too many witnesses would make such an act impossible to conceal. The officers are forced to stand all day in the scorching heat, and Nicholson is beaten and locked in an iron box as punishment.
Shears and two others attempt to escape, but only Shears survives despite being wounded. He is found by a Siamese village, nursed back to health, and eventually reaches the British colony of Ceylon.
As the bridge’s completion deadline approaches, progress is chaotic. The prisoners work minimally and sabotage the project, while the Japanese engineering plans are flawed. Facing failure, Saito risks ritual suicide. To save face, he uses the anniversary of Japan’s 1905 victory in the Russo-Japanese War to declare a general amnesty, releasing Nicholson and exempting the officers from labor.
Cast director: David Lean
Cast actor: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert
Original name: The Bridge on the River Kwai