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...Pierre Boulle??s screenplay, the bridge on the River Kwai is built by the Japanese during World War II, using British prisoners as a labor force. The British colonel who commands the prisoners eventually falls in love with the bridge. He builds it better than the Japanese could have done without him, as a symbol of what can be accomplished by British “soldiers, not slaves.” So infatuated is he with his wooden love-child that he nearly frustrates an attempt by Allied commandoes to blow...

Author: By Julius Novick | Title: At the Gary: The Bridge on the River Kwai | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

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