Preview The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K 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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