Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
The bridge on the River Kwai [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a Sam Spiegel production ; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman ; produced by Sam Spiegel ; directed by David Lean.
Call Number:
DVD B
Publisher, Date:
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2000.
Description:
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 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.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG.
Subjects:
Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994 -- Television adaptations.
Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994 -- Film adaptations.
Burma-Siam Railroad -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma -- Drama.
Drama DVDs.
Action and adventure films.
Closed caption DVDs.
Genre:
War films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other 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.
Horne, Geoffrey.
Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994. Pont de la rivière Kwaï.
Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
ISBN:
0767853547