タイとビルマの国境近くにある日本軍の捕虜収容所では捕虜を使って国境に流れるクワイ河に橋を架ける準備が進められていた。英軍大佐はジュネーヴ協定に反するとして所長と対立し、所長は恩赦を条件にしたことで大佐はこれを承諾し建設工事が始まった。だが同時に、収容所から脱走した米海軍少佐の手引きによって連合軍による架橋爆破作戦も開始されようとしていた。
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製作費: $2,800,000 (4億円)
興行収入: $44,908,000 (67億円)
推定収支: $42,108,000 (63億円)
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監督: David Lean
脚本: Carl Foreman / Michael Wilson / Pierre Boulle
音楽: Malcolm Arnold
制作: Sam Spiegel
撮影監督: Jack Hildyard
制作会社: Horizon Pictures
Colonel Bogey's Barmy Army. OK! Lets get it out there right away, for historical facts of the real Bridge on the River Kwai story, one should research elsewhere, this film is a fictionalised account of the said events. Sadly there are those out there who simply refuse to judge this purely as a piece of cinematic art - and cinematic art it is. A squad of British soldiers are held in a Japanese POW camp in the Burmese jungle. The respective Japanese and British leaders clash but an understanding is finally reached to build a bridge across the River Kwai. The importance of which could prove crucial in more ways than one... It won 7 Academy Awards and 4 BAFTAS, and it was the film that saw the great David Lean enter his epic period. And what a start it is. Kwai is a masterful piece of cinema, it has a magnificently intelligent and complex screenplay - with tough edged dialogue in the script, is bursting at the seams with high quality performances, and beautifully photographed (filmed in Ceylon). Thematically it's about the folly and psychological madness of war, which in turn is ensconced in sub - plots of genuine worth. It all builds to a tremendous finale, where everything we have witnessed is realised with a deftness of talent from across the board. 10/10
