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Bridge On The River Kwai (DVD)
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Bridge On The River Kwai (DVD)
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Loot Price R78
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Based on the true story of the building of a bridge on the Burma
railway by British prisoners-of-war held under a savage Japanese
regime in World War II, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is one
of the greatest war films ever made. The film received seven
Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Performance (Alex
Guinness), for Sir Malcolm Arnold's superb music, and for the
screenplay from the novel by Pierre Boulle (who also wrote Monkey
Planet, the inspiration for Planet of the Apes). The story does
take considerable liberties with history, including the addition of
an American saboteur played by William Holden, and an entirely
fictitious but superbly constructed and thrilling finale. Made on a
vast scale, the film reinvented the war movie as something truly
epic, establishing the cinematic beachhead for The Longest Day
(1962), Patton (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). It also proved a
turning-point in director David Lean's career. Before he made such
classic but conventionally scaled films as In Which We Serve (1942)
and Hobson's Choice (1953). Afterwards there would only be four
more films, but their names are Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr
Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and A Passage to India
(1984).
General
Studio: |
Sony
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Release date: |
March 2014 |
Directors: |
David Lean
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Dimensions: |
192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
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Running time: |
2 hours, 35 minutes |
Age restriction: |
PGV |
Categories: |
DVD >
War
DVD >
Feature Film
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LSN: |
XPF-VM9-NFH-1 |
Barcode: |
6009700326315 |
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