The Bridge on the River Kwai, a film about prisoners of war in a jungle environment
The Bridge on the River Kwai, film about building the Burma railroad bridges, as a fictionalized account
Cassettes of major movies such as The Bridge on the River Kwai and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner were ordered via the initial 200-movie catalog at a retailer, delivered by parcel mail, and then returned to the retailer after viewing.
One of his earliest roles was as a British officer in the wartime epic The Bridge on the River Kwai with Sir Alec Guinness, which was filmed in Ceylon.
His screen credits include The Bridge on the River Kwai, Bonjour Tristesse, The Strange One, Two People, The Twilight Zone episode "The Gift" in 1962, and as Wade Norton in "The Guests" episode of The Outer Limits.
Also includes a discussion by Tom of marching songs, including "The March from The Bridge on the River Kwai" (to the tune of the "Colonel Bogey March"), whistled in the film due to the lyrics ("The words were dirty").
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However this is not the same bridge as depicted in The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle and in its film adaptation.
Sir Alec Guinness, whose best known screen roles included playing eight different characters in Kind Hearts and Coronets, Fagin in Oliver Twist and Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, was born in a ground floor flat in the building on 2 April 1914.
It was written as an orchestral counter-march to the "Colonel Bogey March", which is whistled by the soldiers entering the prisoner camp in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai and again near the end of the film when the bridge is formally dedicated.
The men at this camp built the Bridge on the River Kwai which was described in a book by Pierre Boulle and later in an Oscar-winning film in which Alec Guinness played the senior British officer.