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Budget: FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Gross: FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Genre: Adventure / Drama / War /  more » Awards: Won 7 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 5 nominations  more » User Ratings: 8.3 (94,908 votes)  more »   Also rated #103 in the Top 250 Production Co: FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Distributor: FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Summary: After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.  more »

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Filmmakers: David Lean - Director, Pierre Boulle - Writer (novel "Le pont de la rivière Kwaï"), Sam Spiegel - Producer, Jack Hildyard - Cinematographer, Malcolm Arnold - Composer, Peter Taylor - Editor  more »

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	William Holden ... Shears	3,394
	Alec Guinness ... Colonel Nicholson	2,775
	Jack Hawkins ... Major Warden	11,114
	Sessue Hayakawa ... Colonel Saito	13,821
	James Donald ... Major Clipton	20,133