Overview

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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Cast

William Holden

Alec Guinness

Jack Hawkins

Sessue Hayakawa

James Donald

Geoffrey Horne

André Morell

Peter Williams

John Boxer

Percy Herbert