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| William Holden stars as the cynical loner Shears in the multi-award-winning epic film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). The director David Lean won his first Academy Award for Best Director for this famous film. Telling the story of British prisoners of war who are compelled to construct the bridge of the title as part of the Rangoon-Bangkok railway—infamously built with forced POW labour—the film displays both the cultural clash and the human similarities of the Japanese captors and their Allied prisoners, as well as questioning the application of ordinary social rules in the extraordinary situation of war. | ||||||
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