Among its seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture), Alec Guinness was honored as Best Actor as the resolute but misguided Colonel Nicholson, the leader of British prisoners of war during World War II, who are ordered by the Japanese captors to build a railroad bridge in the Burmese jungle. With William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. Director: David Lean. (UK/US 1957) 162 min.
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Among its seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture), Alec Guinness was honored as Best Actor as the resolute but misguided Colonel Nicholson, the leader of British prisoners of war during World War II, who are ordered by the Japanese captors to build a railroad bridge in the Burmese jungle. With William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. Director: David Lean. (UK/US 1957) 162 min.
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