Overview - The Bridge on the River Kwai

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.

Cast

• Name: William Holden

  Character: Cmdr. Shears

  Popularity: 11.383

  

• Name: Alec Guinness

  Character: Col. Nicholson

  Popularity: 9.717

  

• Name: Jack Hawkins

  Character: Maj. Warden

  Popularity: 8.71

  

• Name: Sessue Hayakawa

  Character: Col. Saito

  Popularity: 5.603

  

• Name: James Donald

  Character: Maj. Clipton

  Popularity: 4.813

  

• Name: Geoffrey Horne

  Character: Lt. Joyce

  Popularity: 2.294

  

• Name: André Morell

  Character: Col. Green

  Popularity: 4.851

  

• Name: Peter Williams

  Character: Capt. Reeves

  Popularity: 0.577