Movie · 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
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Released 11 October 1957 162 min Drama / History / War More from 1957 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Sessue Hayakawa
as Col. Saito
Keiichirō Katsumoto
as Lieutenant Miura
Heihachirō Ōkawa
as Captain Kanematsu
André Morell
as Col. Green
John Boxer
as Major Hughes
Jack Hawkins
as Maj. Warden
Alec Guinness
as Col. Nicholson
Peter Williams
as Capt. Reeves
James Donald
as Maj. Clipton
William Holden
as Cmdr. Shears
Harold Goodwin
as Baker
Percy Herbert
as Grogan
Geoffrey Horne
as Lt. Joyce
Ann Sears
as Nurse
Tsai Chin
as Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)
Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung
as Siamese Girl
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The numbers
48years between the oldest and youngest billed
68Sessue Hayakawa — oldest on the call sheet
20Tsai Chin — youngest billed
42average age of the credited cast