Through the Valley of the Kwai (also published under the titles Miracle on the River Kwai and To End All Wars) is the autobiography of the Scottish captain...
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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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To End All Wars (category Films about the British Army)
The film is based on Through the Valley of the Kwai, an autobiography of Ernest Gordon, then a Scottish Captain, later the Presbyterian Dean of the Princeton...
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Ernest Gordon (category Scottish emigrants to the United States)
chronicled his experiences on the Death Railway in his book Through the Valley of the Kwai. The book served as an inspiration to the film To End All Wars, where...
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Burma Railway (redirect from River Kwai Bridge)
builders. The book Through the Valley of the Kwai is an autobiography of British Army captain Ernest Gordon. Flanagan's 2013 book The Narrow Road to the Deep...
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and WWII Ernest Gordon – POW of Japanese in WWII, author of Through the Valley of the Kwai and former Presbyterian Dean of Princeton University chapel...
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film based on Through the Valley of the Kwai, an autobiography of Ernest Gordon, then a Scottish Captain, later the Presbyterian Dean of the Princeton University...
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The following is an overview of Public housing estates in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme...
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adapting The Silence of the Lambs originating from receiving an advance copy of the book from Harris. When Tally was about halfway through with the first...
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is a list of episodes of the 1972–1975 American television series Kung Fu, starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine. For the sake of the story's continuity...
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1955's The Return of the King, the third volume of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The sequel to 2002's The Lord of the Rings: The Two...
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How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn...
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Kanchanaburi province (redirect from History of Kanchanaburi province)
the World War II Bridge over the River Kwai, originally spelt "Khwae" but officially changed to Kwai to accommodate the expectations of tourists. The...
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on the entire line takes 35 minutes. As a cross-harbour route that goes through the heart of Kowloon and densely populated Sham Shui Po and Kwai Chung...
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Bruce Dern (category American people of Dutch descent)
(specifically, Lawrence of Arabia, Great Expectations and The Bridge on the River Kwai), as among the films that inspired him.When asked if he has ever contemplated...
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abandoned by the side of a river as an infant with scars on her neck, is mute and communicates through sign language. In 1962, during the Cold War, Elisa...
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Chinese typewriter (redirect from Ming Kwai)
"MingKwai", derived from the characters 明 (míng) and 快 (kuài), meaning 'clear' and 'quick' respectively. Lin had a prototype machine custom built by the Carl...
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Butterfly Valley Road on the border between Lai Chi Kok and Cheung Sha Wan. Despite its proximity to Lai Chi Kok, a large part of valley belongs to Kwai Tsing...
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Tai Wo Hau station (category MTR stations in the New Territories)
between Tsuen Wan and Kwai Hing stations on the Tsuen Wan line. It serves the areas of Kwai Yin Court and Tai Wo Hau Estate in the Kwai Tsing District, and...
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Keith Carradine (category Male actors from the San Francisco Bay Area)
of David's character, Kwai Chang Caine. In 1984, he starred in the TV movie Scorned and Swindled alongside Tuesday Weld. In 1987, he starred in the highly...
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Birdman (film) (redirect from Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))
abandon the play and make a fourth Birdman film. Riggan then imagines himself flying through the streets of Manhattan before arriving at the theater....
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Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Chubanshe Cai, Chao; Siu, Kwai Yeung (2023). "Wind Imagery in Shijing: Sacrificing to the Wind God in Early China". Religions. 14 (102):...
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at the Chichester Festival Theatre and declined). Lean convinced him to choose Hawkins because of his work for them on The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)...
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Mitch Miller (redirect from Mitch Miller and The Gang)
of the two marches from The Bridge on the River Kwai, "The River Kwai March" and "Colonel Bogey March", lasted 29 weeks on the Billboard pop charts in...
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Million Dollar Baby (redirect from The Million Dollar Baby)
through the five stages of grief, seeking multiple doctors' opinions in denial, lashing out in anger at Scrap, and trying to bargain with God through...
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George Clooney (redirect from The Challenge (2011 film))
Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome. In 2015, Clooney and Alamuddin adopted a rescue dog, a Basset Hound named Millie, from the San Gabriel Valley Humane...
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This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface...
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Transport in Hong Kong (redirect from List of ports of entry of Hong Kong)
carrying both goods and passengers. The container port in Hong Kong is one of the busiest in the world. The Kwai Chung Terminal operates 24 hours a day...
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can't refuse. The 2006 video game The Godfather is based upon this film and tells the story of Aldo Trapani, whose rise through the ranks of the Corleone family...
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