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Witness for the Prosecution
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FilmPG1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Directed by David Lean
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. From TMDB
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The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 drama history war film, directed by David Lean, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins.
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60 of 153 · most liked firstSunday movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) *****
positive · AI labelView post →THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI opened on this day in 1957. The bridge built for the film was real, fully functional, and destroyed in a single take with cameras rolling from multiple angles. A great read awaits on the ATRM site: alltherightmovies.com/feature/40-i...
neutral · AI labelView post →Another movie worth considering in tandem with Oppenheimer is The Bridge on the River Kwai, specifically Alec Guinness's role in it.
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's Blu-ray Theatre. Along with the original King Kong, The Bridge On The River Kwai is my favorite movie. #lastfourwatched #LetterboxdFriday
positive · AI labelView post →The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). An adults good at their jobs movie complicated by those things being brutal authoritarianism and stiff necked imperialism. How codes of honor can calcify into aiding the enemy. William Holden is on hand to try to get out of being the hero, again.
neutral · AI labelView post →They should advertise all this movie trailers again and just release them as is. 12 Angry Men 2001 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Sting Zulu The Bridge on the River Kwai Terminator 1 and 2 Alien Back to the Future Rollerball Primer (It's fairly new but didn't get the justice it deserved)
neutral · AI labelView post →365 films in danger of being forgotten 1. Over 50 years old 2. Not on Sight & Sound's list of 250 best films 3. Not on "my 60 beloved films" 4. Not on my "1 film 100 best directors" 338/365 David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChalleng
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicPlaces (8) ⭐Malcolm Arnold/The Band of HM Royal Marines 💿The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957 Film Score) 🎶The River Kwai March/Colonel Bogey March open.spotify.com/track/6Lefv6...
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬The Bridge On The River Kwai🎬 🤩Alec Guinness & William Holden 🤩 Not technically a prison movie, yet British POWs are forced labour to complete a strategic bridge for their Japanese captors. 7 Oscars won in 1958
neutral · AI labelView post →Now that I’ve seen “It’s a Wonderful Life” I need a new entrant for “what’s the biggest movie you’ve never seen?” Saturday Night Fever Avatar The Exorcist Gone with the Wind Doctor Zhivago My Fair Lady The Bridge on the River Kwai …but there must be other 21st-century ones
neutral · AI labelView post →Real mixed bag of 📽️🎥🎬 - back from holiday tomorrow #lastfourwatched #films2025 #letterboxdfriday @letterboxd.social - Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), Animalia (2023), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Made of Honor (2008) #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →My dad, in his mid-70s, is now giving me film recommendations. Talking about movies has brought us closer recently. Tonight's pick is The Bridge on the River Kwai. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Don’t miss David Lean’s 1957 masterpiece THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, screening on 35mm on Mon, Sep 21. Our Big & Loud series has been extended through Sep 29, featuring encore screenings of our most popular titles along with some stellar new additions. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/the-bri...
neutral · AI labelView post →July 4th weekend movie playlist: • Kelly's Heroes (1970) • To Hell and Back (1955) • Hell is for Heroes (1962) • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
neutral · AI labelView post →Heralded as one of the greatest war films ever made, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI stars William Holden, Alec Guinness, and Sessue Hayakawa in a gripping story of perseverance and resolve. See David Lean’s World War II epic on 35mm during Big & Loud. paristheaternyc.com/film/the-bri...
neutral · AI labelView post →Look, The Bridge on the River Kwai was a massive cinematic epic, took Best Picture/Director and all that... ... but in that year? Honestly? I think 12 Angry Men was the greatest film achievement. Even more staggering when you consider that it was Sidney Lumet's DEBUT FILM. What an opening note!
negative · AI labelView post →As much as I adore Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai has become my favorite David Lean movie the last several viewings. Lawrence is second. Great Expectations rounds out my top three. #TCMParty
positive · AI labelView post →Remembering actor William Holden, born William Franklin Beedle, Jr. on April 17, 1918, O'Fallon, Illinois (d. November 12, 1981). He gave so many great performances: The Wild Bunch, Stalag 17, Sunset Boulevard, Breezy, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Towering Inferno, Network. I could keep going.
neutral · AI labelView post →I need to check out more films with British actor Alec Guinness. I know him from Star Wars ( a no-brainer there! 🤓 ) & The Bridge on the River Kwai ( excellent film 👍 ). Scanning through IMDB I see a few more appearances that jog my memory - but there's a huge amount I've never even heard of! 😳
positive · AI labelView post →'Nobody else knew': Allied prisoners of war held in Taiwan. > Jinguashi (Taiwan) (AFP) – In a small urban park in Taiwan, more than 4,000 names are etched into a granite wall -- most of them British and American servicemen held by the Japanese during World War II. > The sombre memorial sits on the site of Kinkaseki, a brutal prisoner of war camp near Taipei and one of more than a dozen run by Japan on the island it ruled from 1895 until its defeat in 1945. >For decades, little was known of…
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2025FilmChallenge Day 2 Kite in a movie The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for a movie! In for a long one tonight. #10 of 100 #FamousMovies I haven't seen yet The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957 Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness
neutral · AI labelView post →Mind you, the British film "The Bridge On The River Kwai" was very inaccurate and IIRC some relatives sued about how some (real) British soldiers were portrayed. It's not solely an American issue.
negative · AI labelView post →Tech infrastructure and systems engineers: At long last, we have created the Bridge on the River Kwai from the classic film The Bridge on the River Kwai
neutral · AI labelView post →Next thing you know, Trump is going to sign executive orders to re-establish The Dirty Dozen, The Magnificent Seven, and rebuild The Bridge on the River Kwai, or whatever else is playing on the late, late movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose one film from each of your 30 favorite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 16/30 Film: The Bridge on the River Kwai| Director: David Lean #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge #DavidLean
neutral · AI labelView post →That is it "The Bridge on the River Kwai" I remember the movie well. A big deal in 1957.
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilMovieChallenge Day 9 - someone surrenders in a movie British soldiers - The Bridge on the River Kwai #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Colonel Bogey March (Mitch Miller) From the 1957 film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa.
neutral · AI labelView post →#SoundtrackChallenge #MusicChallenge Day 24: historical movie theme The Bridge On The River Kwai - Colonel Bogey Match youtu.be/4k4NEAIk3PU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Literally an epic WWII movie begging to be made. The only major one about that theater that was is the Bridge on the River Kwai, which while good, could use a 2020s successor.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Philadelphia Story Midnight Cowboy The Best Years of Our Lives (My new very favorite movie) The Bridge on the River Kwai
neutral · AI labelView post →1) At Dawn We Slept by Gordon Prange (seeing the professor's collection at UMCP is impressive) 2) The Bridge on the River Kwai (favorite film of mine; I haven't been through all the podcasts, so I don't know if it was already done) 3) Garlic shrimp with pasta and basil #HATM
positive · AI labelView post →No One Asked Top Ten best film epics: 1. The Bridge on the River Kwai 2. Seven Samurai 3. Lawrence of Arabia 4. Greed 5. Schindler’s List/Malcolm X (tie) 6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 7. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (1/2) #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →I know I'm not breaking any new ground by talking about The Bridge on the River Kwai, a movie that's almost 70 years old and won 7 Oscars, but Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson and Kintarō Hayakawa as Colonel Saito are just so dang good.
positive · AI labelView post →That Fonda wasn’t even nominated for this film. SMH. 🤦♂️ ACTOR WINNER ALEC GUINNESS The Bridge on the River Kwai NOMINEES MARLON BRANDO Sayonara ANTHONY FRANCIOSA A Hatful of Rain CHARLES LAUGHTON Witness for the Prosecution ANTHONY QUINN Wild Is the Wind #TCMParty #12AngryMen
neutral · AI labelView post →"Master actor of theatre, film and television, his self-deprecating manner could not disguise a formidable talent..." — Tom Sutcliffe Alec Guinness April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000 Won both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for The Bridge on the River Kwai
neutral · AI labelView post →I am the daughter of a British army prisoner of war at Changi, a notorious #WWII camp in the jungles north of Singapore. My father, Percy Herbert, went on to become a film actor. His early movies included the Oscar-winning “The Bridge on the River Kwai". #TCMparty drkatrinawood.com/2024/08/13/h...
neutral · AI labelView post →Winner of seven well-deserved Oscars, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI features Alec Guinness as the leader of a contingent of prisoners of war who are forced to construct the titular bridge. Screening on #35mm as part of The Films of David Lean. 📆 Sat 10th ⏰ 15.15 🎟 ifi.ie/film/david-l...
neutral · AI labelView post →#FilmHistory On this day, 1968, the science fiction film Planet Of The Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (from a screenplay by Michael Wilson & Rod Serling), was released. The movie is based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle (who also wrote the 1952 book, The Bridge on the River Kwai).
neutral · AI labelView post →Which film SHOULD have won Best Picture at the 30th Academy Awards...? Film critics @williambibbiani.bsky.social and @witneyseibold.bsky.social explore the nominees PEYTON PLACE, SAYONARA, 12 ANGRY MEN, WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION and THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI in our podcast, ONLY THE BEST!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Brain from Planet Arous was originally released on a double bill. The other film was....Teenage Monster. Were you expecting it to be on a double bill with The Bridge on the River Kwai? #BMovieManiacs
neutral · AI labelView post →Is The Hangover (2009) at a grave disadvantage when judging classicness compared to the Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Vertigo (1958)? We thought so... #tiebreaker #podcast #movie #classic #throwback @tj3duncan.bsky.social @danawduncan.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Smash two movies together to make a new movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai of Madison County
neutral · AI labelView post →"Alec Guinness is this crazed British Officer" Dr. Ruth Barton explains the significance of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai! Screening on glistening 35mm 🎞✨ 📆 Sat 10th ⏰ 15.15 🎟️ ifi.ie/film/david-l...
neutral · AI labelView post →Totally agree! I recently watched Lawrence of Arabia and the Bridge on the River Kwai for this exact reason
positive · AI labelView post →10) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) A great film from a good book. The composer Malcolm Arnold is at his best. The new wide screen format enables a vast amount of spectacle to go on the screen. And Alec Guinness keeps you watching to the very end. fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-bridge-o...
neutral · AI labelView post →Why spoil the film any more than I have? you should experience that catharsis for yourself. The film won best picture in 1952 and Gary Cooper got best actor. Grace Kelley became a star. (Balio, UA book pt. 2) Best screenplay went to Carl Foreman, who also wrote "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
neutral · AI labelView post →A brilliantly crafted war film. My ★★★★½ review of The Bridge on the River Kwai on Letterboxd boxd.it/7QfcIt #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI A top 3 war movie of all time
positive · AI labelView post →The Bridge on the River Kwai is a great movie
positive · AI labelView post →This Labour Day our movie editor is rewatching the 1957 Best Picture winner The Bridge on the River Kwai. It deals with themes like: -Obsession -The Destructive Nature of Pride -The Moral Ambiguity of War Plus, they blow up a train AND a bridge!
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the 1950s: '50: Sunset Blvd. '51: Ace in the Hole '52: High Noon '53: The Naked Spur '54: Seven Samurai '55: The Night of the Hunter '56: The Searchers '57: The Bridge on the River Kwai '58: Vertigo '59: The 400 Blows What are yours? #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Colonel Bogey March the song from The Bridge on the River Kwai movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →I thought “Guns of..” might be the archetypal Christmas War movie given it’s appearances BUT The Bridge on the River Kwai has six Yuletide appearances 1974-2000 SEVEN if minded to count 20th December.. 🤷🏼♀️ Unlike “Guns” it has not retained it’s reputation as a Christmas film in the 2000s
neutral · AI labelView post →There's his version of GREAT EXPECTATIONS from the 40s, but again that's for film people now. I agree (also have we society accepted how batshit THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is now?)
neutral · AI labelView post →For #NovemberMovieChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social : catch up #MovieSky #FilmSky Day 7: A bridge in a movie, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/collaboratio...
neutral · AI labelView post →David Lean mainstay Alec Guinness leads a crew of P.O.W.s through an arduous building expedition in WWII-era Burma in THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI. See the 4K restoration on Thurs, Sept 4 in our series Big & Loud! www.paristheaternyc.com/film/the-bri...
neutral · AI labelView post →47) The Bridge on the River Kwai. Great movie of course, & another in the entry of really compellingly humane performances from Alec Guinness. Of the big David Lean epics though I still very strongly prefer Lawrence of Arabia.
positive · AI labelView post →#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025 May 25 - movie character played by Jack Hawkins Major Warden in The Bridge on the River Kwai #filmsky #moviesky
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