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"It’s a matter of principle. If we give in now, there will be no end to it."
- Colonel Nicholson

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - IMDb

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - IMDb Movie Poster
The Bridge on the River Kwai: Directed by David Lean. With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. 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.