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in:
  - "[[Movies]]"
related: 
director:
  - "[[David Lean]]"
actors:
  - "[[William Holden]]"
  - "[[Alec Guinness]]"
  - "[[Jack Hawkins]]"
writer:
  - Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
created: 2023-10-29
tags:
  - source/movie
showType: movie
showGenre:
  - "[[Adventure]]"
  - "[[Drama]]"
  - "[[War]]"
showGroup: 
runtime: 161 min
imdbRating: "8.1"
plot: British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
image: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOGY5NmNlMmQtYzRlYy00NGQ5LWFkYjYtNzExZmQyMTg0ZDA0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDIzMzcwNjc@._V1_SX300.jpg
year: 1957
yearXP: 2009
yearXPL: 2013
showStatus: watched
rating: 5.3
---
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