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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396256217
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Columbia Tri/Star
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1JapaneseOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1ThaiOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledPortugueseSubtitledFrenchDubbed
Manufacturer: Columbia Tri/Star
MPN: COLD25621D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Columbia Tri/Star
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Running Time: 167 minutes
Studio: Columbia Tri/Star
Theatrical Release Date: 1957
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/10/2008 Run time: 167 minutes Rating: Pg
Amazon.com essential video:
Director David Lean's masterful 1957 realization of Pierre Boulle's novel remains a benchmark for war films, and a deeply absorbing movie by any standard--like most of Lean's canon, The Bridge on the River Kwai achieves a richness in theme, narrative, and characterization that transcends genre.
The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge. His clash of wills with a British prisoner, the charismatic Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), escalates into a duel of honor, Nicholson defying his captor's demands to win concessions for his troops. How the two officers reach a compromise, and Nicholson becomes obsessed with building that bridge, provides the story's thematic spine; the parallel movement of a team of commandos dispatched to stop the project, led by a British major (Jack Hawkins) and guided by an American escapee (William Holden), supplies the story's suspense and forward momentum.
Shot on location in Sri Lanka, Kwai moves with a careful, even deliberate pace that survivors of latter-day, high-concept blockbusters might find lulling--Lean doesn't pander to attention deficit disorders with an explosion every 15 minutes. Instead, he guides us toward the intersection of the two plots, accruing remarkable character details through extraordinary performances. Hayakawa's cruel camp commander is gradually revealed as a victim of his own sense of honor, Holden's callow opportunist proves heroic without softening his nihilistic edge, and Guinness (who won a Best Actor Oscar, one of the production's seven wins) disappears as only he can into Nicholson's brittle, duty-driven, delusional psychosis. His final glimpse of self-knowledge remains an astonishing moment--story, character, and image coalescing with explosive impact.
Like Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai has been beautifully restored and released in a highly recommended widescreen version that preserves its original aspect ratio. --Sam Sutherland
Amazon.com:
Director David Lean's masterful 1957 realization of Pierre Boulle's novel remains a benchmark for war films, and a deeply absorbing movie by any standard--like most of Lean's canon, The Bridge on the River Kwai achieves a richness in theme, narrative, and characterization that transcends genre.
The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge. His clash of wills with a British prisoner, the charismatic Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), escalates into a duel of honor, Nicholson defying his captor's demands to win concessions for his troops. How the two officers reach a compromise, and Nicholson becomes obsessed with building that bridge, provides the story's thematic spine; the parallel movement of a team of commandos dispatched to stop the project, led by a British major (Jack Hawkins) and guided by an American escapee (William Holden), supplies the story's suspense and forward momentum.
Shot on location in Sri Lanka, Kwai moves with a careful, even deliberate pace that survivors of latter-day, high-concept blockbusters might find lulling--Lean doesn't pander to attention deficit disorders with an explosion every 15 minutes. Instead, he guides us toward the intersection of the two plots, accruing remarkable character details through extraordinary performances. Hayakawa's cruel camp commander is gradually revealed as a victim of his own sense of honor, Holden's callow opportunist proves heroic without softening his nihilistic edge, and Guinness (who won a Best Actor Oscar, one of the production's seven wins) disappears as only he can into Nicholson's brittle, duty-driven, delusional psychosis. His final glimpse of self-knowledge remains an astonishing moment--story, character, and image coalescing with explosive impact.
Like Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai has been beautifully restored and released in a highly recommended widescreen version that preserves its original aspect ratio. --Sam Sutherland
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Beyond The Bridge on the River Kwai 
The David Lean Collection | 
WWII 60th Anniversary Collection | 
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai (History Channel) |
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
A documentary on the History Channel interviewed many of the veterans who were POWs that actually lived through what the movie attempts to dramatize ... every single one of these vets hated what was portrayed in this movie. I don't care how good a movie was made, if it's an insult to the veterans who were there, then it's an embarrassment.
Rating:  -
Yes I know. This is an old, classic, best picture flick.
It's just too damn slow. The William Holden character, the American P.O.W., really should have been an interesting character. He was almost interesting after he escaped, playing around with a girl on the beach...some of the dialogue was trying for some witty, snappy, Casablanca-esque pop...but it just wasn't there. It just seemed like everyone was writing talking in slow-motion...all the actors were slaves to long-winded dialogue ... Read More
Rating:  -
Yes, I was one of those rare individuals who actually found the overly praised `Lawrence of Arabia' to be a hollow movie experience and I was duly crucified for my opinion. I don't really expect much a crucifixion to befall me on my review for this beloved film directed by, you guessed it, David Lean. Why? Because I actually really, really liked this movie and consider it to be nearly everything that `Laurence of Arabia' wasn't.
Lean's `The Bridge on the River Kwai' is a powerfully moving ... Read More
Rating:  -
The Bridge On The River Kwai first released in 1957 is a classic. The fact that it is based on a true story makes it even better, though i am sure as in most movies their is poetical license.
Very educational movie of how British POWs were treated under Japanese during WWII rule and the stiff upper British lip in definace of terrible odds and conditions.
A truly great movie.
Rating: -
Arguably the best dramatic war film about WWII in the Pacific. There's no arguing, though, that this film was exceptionally well made and eagerly viewed by audiences around the world in the late 1950s. Not only did the film win several Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Producer, & Best Cinematography, but it also won a number of British and other foreign film & acting awards.
The awards were neither gratuitous nor for lesser known film categories. The acting was stellar with Sir ... Read More
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