The 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, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

William Holden
as Cmdr. Shears

Alec Guinness
as Col. Nicholson

Jack Hawkins
as Maj. Warden

Sessue Hayakawa
as Col. Saito

James Donald
as Maj. Clipton

Geoffrey Horne
as Lt. Joyce

André Morell
as Col. Green

Peter Williams
as Capt. Reeves

John Boxer
as Major Hughes

Percy Herbert
as Grogan
John Chard
Colonel Bogey's Barmy Army. OK! Lets get it out there right away, for historical facts of the real Bridge on the River Kwai story, one should research elsewhere, this film is a fictionalised account of the said events. Sadly there are those out there who simply refuse to judge this purely as a pi...