8.1IMDb251k votes
Directed by David Lean
With William Holden · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins
the vibe
- 🌀 slow burn
- 🧠 intelligent
- ending register:ambivalent
the story
British POWs in Burma are forced to build a bridge for their Japanese captors, while an officer plots its destruction.
the plot
contains spoilers
- english POWs in burma are forced to build a bridge for their japanese captors
- british and american intelligence officers conspire to blow up the bridge
- col. nicholson supervises the bridge's construction
- col. nicholson acquires a sense of pride in the bridge he built
- col. nicholson tries to foil the plans to blow up the bridge
awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Picture (1958)
- Academy Award — Best Director (1958)
- Academy Award — Best Actress (1958)
where to watch
not on any of our streamers yet.
