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    The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel and the...
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  • The Bridge over the River Kwai (French: Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï) is a novel by the French novelist Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 and English...
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  • titled "The River Kwai March", for David Lean's 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai, set during World War II. Empire magazine included the tune in...
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    adaptation of the novel, The Bridge on the River Kwai, in which Australian, Dutch, and British prisoners of war and indigenous peoples were forced by the Japanese...
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  • River Kwai can refer to two rivers in western Thailand, a film or a novel: Khwae Yai River Khwae Noi River The Bridge on the River Kwai, film The Bridge...
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    not the same bridge as depicted in The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle and in its film adaptation. A bridge was built of wood approximately 100...
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  • whistled by the soldiers entering the prisoner camp in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai and again near the end of the film when the bridge is formally...
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  • Timothy Bottoms. It is not a sequel to The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), though it also deals with POWs of the Japanese in World War II. Edward Fox as...
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    Kitulgala (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Kitulgala is a small town in the west of Sri Lanka. The Academy Award-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed on the Kelani River near Kitulgala, although...
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  • familiarity increased after its use in a scene in the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai. The song has been cited as an example of morally-correct...
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  • Pierre Boulle (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning...
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    Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976). He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times...
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    Widely considered one of the most influential directors of all time, Lean directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia...
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    directed 17 feature films in total. Lean often directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago...
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    David Lean (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema. He directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia...
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    film, The Bridge on the River Kwai (itself an adaptation of the French language novel The Bridge over the River Kwai); a novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep...
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    30th Academy Awards (category 1957 awards in the United States)
    the River Kwai, despite the fact that he did not speak English, because the actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, were blacklisted at the time...
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  • Malcolm Arnold (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    among these The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar. Malcolm Arnold was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, the youngest...
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  • The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. The Bridge on the River Kwai topped the year's box office in North America, France, and Germany...
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    coach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. His film and television credits include The Bridge on the River Kwai, Bonjour Tristesse, The Strange...
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    Philip Toosey (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Oscar-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai in which Alec Guinness played the senior British officer, Lt Col Nicholson. Both the book and film outraged...
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    Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in...
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  • of his earliest roles was as a British officer in the wartime epic film The Bridge on the River Kwai with Sir Alec Guinness, which was filmed in Ceylon...
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    Carl Foreman (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    film producer who wrote the award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai and High Noon, among others. He was one of the screenwriters who were blacklisted...
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    The 15th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1957 films, were held on February 22, 1958. The Bridge on the River Kwai Wild is the Wind Sayonara...
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    Kanchanaburi (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    the infamous Burma Railway, constructed a bridge, an event fictionalised in the films The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Return from the River Kwai...
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    Sessue Hayakawa (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    feature films, and three of his films (The Cheat, The Dragon Painter, and The Bridge on the River Kwai) stand in the United States National Film Registry...
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    Alec Guinness (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    (1948); Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor;...
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  • work on Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Planet of the Apes (1968), Friendly Persuasion (1956), A Place in the Sun (1951), and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)...
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    Sam Spiegel (category People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria)
    Eagle) The African Queen (1951) (as S. P. Eagle) Melba (1953) On the Waterfront (1954) The Strange One (1957) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Suddenly...
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