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The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge. His clash of wills with a British prisoner, the charismatic Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), escalates into a duel of honor, Nicholson defying his captor's demands to win concessions for his troops. How the two officers reach a compromise, and Nicholson becomes obsessed with building that bridge, provides the story's thematic spine; the parallel movement of a team of commandos dispatched to stop the project, led by a British major (Jack Hawkins) and guided by an American escapee (William Holden), supplies the story's suspense and forward momentum.
Shot on location in Sri Lanka, Kwai moves with a careful, even deliberate pace that survivors of latter-day, high-concept blockbusters might find lulling--Lean doesn't pander to attention deficit disorders with an explosion every 15 minutes. Instead, he guides us toward the intersection of the two plots, accruing remarkable character details through extraordinary performances. Hayakawa's cruel camp commander is gradually revealed as a victim of his own sense of honor, Holden's callow opportunist proves heroic without softening his nihilistic edge, and Guinness (who won a Best Actor Oscar, one of the production's seven wins) disappears as only he can into Nicholson's brittle, duty-driven, delusional psychosis. His final glimpse of self-knowledge remains an astonishing moment--story, character, and image coalescing with explosive impact.
Like Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai has been beautifully restored and released in a highly recommended widescreen version that preserves its original aspect ratio. --Sam Sutherland
| ARTIST: | Original Soundtrack |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Tristar |
| FEATURES: | Soundtrack |
| TYPE: | Soundtracks & Film Scores |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Oveture, River Kwai March Colonel Bogey, Shear's Escape, Nicholson's Victory, Sunset, Working on the Bridge, Trek to the Bridge, Camp Concert Dance, Finale |
| UPC: | 766928094827 |
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David Lean Masterpiece of War's futility When all is said and done "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is simply one of the greatest films ever made. William Holden is superb in the role of the american escapee. Alec Guinness's role as the British P.O.W. Commanding Officer in a wonderful layered performance that I still am finding fascinating after multiple viewing. The screenplay tight and the characters are well developed. I will also add totally believable. David Lean's Direction and Photography is outstanding. This isn't a movie as much as an experience.
One of the Greats
This is a masterpiece by almost any measure. It achieves the highest level of the motion picture art form in terms of cinematography, acting, and musical scoring. The storyline carries itself, keeping the audience glued to the screen as the plot unfolds. The standoff between the Japanese and British colonels is especially memorable. I've read that the Producer (Sam Spiegel) and the Director (David Lean) spared no expense and were uncompromising in the making of this film. It shows. The results are superb.
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>The only negative thing I can say is that, if you're looking for a happy ending, you might be disappointed. The supplementary material on the DVD is excellent, especially the "Appreciation" by John Milius.
It doesn't have to be big to be big
In World War Two, in Southeast Asia, Sessue Hayakawa portrays the commandant of a Japanese prison camp. Alec Guinness is the British Colonel of a group of soldiers who were captured and placed in that prison camp. Jack Hawkins is another British prisoner, and William Holden is an American prisoner-of-war escapee. Hayakawa and Guinness collide as Hayakawa tries to "break" the morale of the prisoners and make them build a bridge that is important to the Japanese war effort. Guinness is first obsessed with proving that British troops cannot be broken, and then becomes obsessed with building that bridge, to prove what he and his men are capable of. He needs structure, order, and purpose so much, that he adopts Hayakawa's project as a mission for himself. Meanwhile, Hawkins and Holden are determined to stop or destroy the bridge, to hurt the Japanese.
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>Everyone is determined, at least, or obsessed, to accomplish purposes that converge, collide, and clash in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The acting is superb, and Alec Guinness deservedly won an Oscar for his portrayal of a man so in need of a purpose that he subverts his own beliefs and adopts the enemy's purpose. One of the scenes at the end, where Guinness's character suddenly realizes what he has done, is an amazing capturing of a man experiencing an epiphany, or emerging suddenly from a cloud of insanity.
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>Most of the time, the term "epic" needs to be connected to something on a very large scale. David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" encompasses much of, well, Arabia. "Dr. Zhivago" spans all of Russia during the Communist Revolution. "Gone With The Wind" covers much of the Confederate South during the Civil War. "Cleopatra" shows us ancient Egypt and Rome. These epics also span years of time in the stories they cover. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" does not cover nearly as much ground, geographically or chronologically. It is, in a sense, a small epic, and it is one that unfolds at its own pace, like "The Green Mile." "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is not big, and it is not fast. It is just quietly magnificent and stunningly powerful.
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