Preview The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Cine-Files
Steve Morris & John Rocha
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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This Friday on The Cine-Files John and Steve begin their deep dive on one of the greatest war films ever made. With incredible cinematography, a fantastic score, brilliant script and unforgettable characters, The Bridge on the River Kwai is a story of courage bordering on madness of true heroism and it's opposite.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, cinephiles fans, this is the Outlaw John Roca. |
| 0:04.2 | This week on The Cinephiles, Steve and I begin our deep dive into the bridge on the River |
| 0:08.6 | Quai. |
| 0:09.6 | This 1957 Best Picture winner, which also won six other Academy Awards, was the highest-grossing |
| 0:15.3 | film of 1957 and is considered one of the greatest films ever made. |
| 0:20.4 | In fact, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United |
| 0:24.6 | States Library of Congress. |
| 0:26.2 | It has been included on the AFI's list of best American films ever made, and in 1999, |
| 0:31.6 | the British Film Institute voted the bridge on the River Quai, the 11th greatest British |
| 0:35.6 | film of the 20th century. |
| 0:37.6 | This film is directed by David Lean and written by Karl Forman and Michael Wilson, who were |
| 0:41.5 | blacklisted at the time. |
| 0:43.1 | It's also based on the book by Pierre Boul, who wrote the Planet of the Apes. |
| 0:46.6 | It stars William Holden, Anakin as Jack Hawkins, and the great Sasui Hayakawa here. |
| 0:51.8 | It tells the story of a battle of wills between Colonel Nicholson and Colonel Saito here in |
| 0:56.9 | this Japanese war camp, and it uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway |
| 1:02.4 | as its backdrop. |
| 1:03.6 | This is one of those films that is so much fun to explore. |
| 1:06.8 | One of our favorites, for sure, here on The Cinephiles. |
| 1:09.4 | So we're very excited to dive in to explore the message of this movie, the performances, |
| 1:14.9 | the direction, the cinematography, the story, and the script, and how we feel about these |
| 1:19.7 | characters looking at them now later in our lives. |
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