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The bridge on the River Kwai
[DVD] /
Columbia Pictures presents a Sam Spiegel production ; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman ; produced by Sam Spiegel ; directed by David Lean.
Collector's ed.
Culver City, Calif :
Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
©2008.
2 videodiscs (ca. 167 min.) :
sd., col. ;
4 3/4 in.
Columbia classics.
Columbia classics (DVD videodiscs)
Based on Pont de la rivieÌre KwaiÌ by Pierre Boulle.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.
Disc 1: Feature ; Disc 2: Special features: Making of the Bridge on the River Kwai (ca. 53 min.) -- featurette: The rise and fall of a jungle giant (ca. 6 min.) -- On seeing film (USC short film introduced by William Holden ; ca. 16 min.) -- An appreciation by filmmaker John Milius (ca. 8 min.) -- photo and trailer galleries -- Talent files [text feature].
Cinematography, Jack Hildyard ; editing, Peter Taylor ; music, Malcolm Arnold.
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Andre Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne.
British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1, mono.; 2.55:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation; remastered in high definition.
In English (Dolby digital 5.1 or original mono.) with optional French (Dolby digital 5.1) soundrack; optional English and French subtitles.
Closed captioned.
Boulle, Pierre
1912-1994
Pont de la rivieÌre KwaiÌ
Film adaptations.
Burma-Siam Railroad
Drama.
World War, 1939-1945
Drama.
World War, 1939-1945
Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Drama.
World War, 1939-1945
Campaigns
Burma
Drama.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Burma
History
Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
Drama.
Feature films.
Lean, David,
1908-1991.
Spiegel, Sam.
Wilson, Michael,
1914-1978.
Foreman, Carl.
Holden, William,
1918-1981.
Guinness, Alec,
1914-2000.
Hawkins, Jack,
1910-1973.
Hayakawa, SesshuÌ,
1889-1973.
Donald, James,
1917-1993.
Morell, AndreÌ,
1909-1978.
Williams, Peter,
1915-
Boxer, John,
1909-1982.
Herbert, Percy,
1925-1992.
Goodwin, Harold,
1917-2004.
Sears, Ann,
1933-1992.
Horne, Geoffrey.
Boulle, Pierre,
1912-1994
Pont de la rivieÌre KwaiÌ.
Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm).
Columbia classics.
Columbia classics (DVD videodiscs.)
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