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Review of by Tracey C — 22 Jul 2010

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Bridge on the River Kwai Movie Quotes (1957).

William Holden (Major Shears): You make me sick with your heroics. There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills, they go well together, don't they? And with you it's just one thing or the other: destroy a bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war! You and Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules, when the only important thing is how to live like a human being.

Sir Alec Guiness (Colonel Nicholson): One day the war will be over. And I hope that the people that use this bridge in years to come will remember how it was built and who built it. Not a gang of slaves, but soldiers, British soldiers, Clipton, even in captivity.

Bridge On The River Kwai Trivia.

Bridge On The River Kwai won 7 Academy Awards:

Best Motion Picture - Sam Spiegel, Producer.

Directing - David Lean.

Actor - Alec Guinness.

Cinematography - Jack Hildyard.

Film Editing - Peter Taylor *.

Music (Scoring) - Malcolm Arnold.

Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle [NOTE: Though Pierre Boulle received official screen credit, it was commonly known that blacklisted writers, Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, wrote the screenplay based on Mr. Boulle's novel (translated from the French). On December 11, 1984, The Academy voted posthumous Oscars to Wilson and Foreman.].

Did you know?

That William Holden was voted #25 Man in AFI's 50 Greatest American Screen Legends?

That Bridge On The River Kwai was voted #13 in AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time?

This review of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) was written by on 22 Jul 2010.

The Bridge on the River Kwai has generally received very positive reviews.

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