Writers: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
Release date: 14 Dec 1957
Countries: United Kingdom, United States
Runtime: 161 min
8.1 / 10
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.