Cover image for The bridge on the River Kwai
Title:
The bridge on the River Kwai
Author:
Lean, David, 1908-1991.
Publication Information:
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2000.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
General Note:
Based on Pont de la rivière Kwaï / Pierre Boulle.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.

Includes interactive and animated menus, scene seletions with motion, theatrical trailer, talent files.

For specific features see interactive menu.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: PG.
Personal Subject:
Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994-Film and video adaptations.
Corporate Subject:
Burma-Siam Railroad -- Drama.
Subject Term:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma -- Drama.
Genre:
War films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author:
Lean, David, 1908-1991.

Spiegel, Sam.

Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978.

Foreman, Carl.

Holden, William, 1918-1981.

Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.

Hawkins, Jack, 1910-1973.

Hayakawa, Sesshū, 1889-1973.

Donald, James, 1917-1993.

Sears, Ann, 1933-1992.

Horne, Geoffrey.

Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994. Pont de la rivière Kwaï.
Added Corporate Author:
Columbia Pictures Corporation.

Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
ISBN:
9780767853545
Format :
DVD

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