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THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
May 28, 2016  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This weekend of war movies continues, all day and all night, and the opening movie in prime time tonight is one of the genre’s best and most unusual: 1957’s The Bridge On the River Kwai, the Oscar-winning David Lean movie starring Alec Guinness and William Holden as POWs forced by their Japanese captors to build a strategic bridge. The novel on which it’s based was written by Pierre Boulle, who also wrote the Planet of the Apes novels.

 
 
 
 
 
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