William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald
Duration
161 min
Release Date
1957-10-02
Overview
The basic 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 building, 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 aims.