The Bridge On the River Kwai (English, Spanish, Italian, Blu-ray disc)

Classic British war film based on the novel by Pierre Boulle in which a group of POWs are forced to build a bridge in Burma for the Japanese. Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) is the appointed leader of the men interned in the camp. When the Japanese commander, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), orders his captives to build a bridge across the river Kwai, Nicholson agrees on the basis that the project will keep his men occupied and give them an opportunity to prove, through the quality of their work, the superiority of British engineering. However, as the bridge progresses and the POWs strive to show their craftsmanship, Nicholson appears to lose sight of the fact that the ultimate object of the bridge is to help the Japanese win the war. The impending arrival of a British commando team, sent to destroy the bridge, looks set to provide a stern test of where the true loyalties of the increasingly obsessive Nicholson lie.

General

Studio:	Sony Pictures Home Ent
Release date:	June 2011
Movie released:	1957
Actors:	Alec Guinness • Jack Hawkins • Sessue Hayakawa • William Holden • James Donald • Geoffrey Horne • Ann Sears • André Morell • Percy Herbert • John Boxer
Contributors:	Carl Foreman • Michael Wilson • Malcolm Arnold • Sam Spiegel • Jack Hildyard
Directors:	David Lean
Dimensions:	170 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Region encoding:	Region B. This Blu-ray disk will play in all South African Blu-ray players.
Audio format:	Dolby Digital 5.1
Video format:	Widescreen
Languages:	English • Spanish • Italian
Subtitles:	Danish • English • Finnish • Hindi • Italian • Norwegian • Portuguese • Spanish • Swedish
Age restriction:	PG
Categories:	DVD > Classics DVD > Feature Film Blu-Ray > Classics Blu-Ray > Feature Film
LSN:	XB9-GG1-CNE-7
Barcode:	5050629000115

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• Interactive Menus
• Enhanced WS tv
• Bonus Footage
• Trailers
• Interviews: William Holden and Alec Guiness on the Steve Allen Show
• Making Of Documentary
• Other Documentary: 'Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant', 'An Appreciation', 'Crossing the Bridge', 'USC short film introduced by William Holden'

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