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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1), English
Editor's Note
One of the all-time great war films, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is yet another classic from the marvelous David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DR. ZHIVAGO). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, a 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 (a fabulous Alec Guinness), the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans. Although credited to screenwriter Carl Foreman, the script was actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. The film garnered seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Guinness). The climax is one of the great finales in film history.
| Features | 2-Disc Set | | Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.55 | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 5.1 - English | | Dubbed - Portuguese, Spanish - Optional | | Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned | | Subtitles - English, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai - Optional |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 1/1/2037 |
| Running Time: 162 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1957 | | Catalog ID: 16325 | | UPC: 00043396163256 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, Portuguese Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Mandarin | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Academy Awards (1957) |  | Winner, Best Film Editing | | Winner, Best Picture | | Alec Guinness, Winner, Best Actor | | David Lean, Winner, Best Director | | Carl Foreman, Winner, Best Adapted Screenplay | | Pierre Boulle, Winner, Best Adapted Screenplay | | Jack Hildyard, Winner, Best Cinematography | | Michael Wilson, Winner, Best Adapted Screenplay | | Malcolm Arnold, Winner, Best Original Score |
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| | Professional Reviews | Chicago Sun-Times
"...Lean handles the climax with precision and suspense..." 04/18/1999 p.5USA Today
"...[A] masterpiece...purely enjoyable..." 11/17/2000 p.13E Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] masterpiece....That rare film about something as seemingly black-and-white as World War II that is colored entirely in shades of gray, and the better for it..." 11/24/2000 p.51 Total Film
"...It's certainly weathered well thanks to its novel and ingenious approach to presenting multiple perspectives of the Second World War..." 03/01/2001 p.104 Premiere
"...[T]wo compelling stories jelled into one sprawling action film..." 12/01/2003 p.9 |
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