The film was based on the 1952 novel Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle. Starring Alec Guinness, it depicts the struggles and defiance of Japanese prisoners of war building the fictional Burma railway between 1943-44.
Image: The iconic poster of the 1957 classicĭavid Lean’s 1957 epic Bridge on the River Kwai is regarded as one of the all-time great war films.
