Word: kwai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridge on the River Kwai (Sam Spiegel; Columbia...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness)-a magnificent war story (TIME...
Actor-Businessman William Holden, who handcuffed Columbia Pictures to what seemed a historically profitable contract for his part in The Bridge on the River Kwai, last week felt the contract's manacles snapping around his own wrists. Signing on for 10% of the gross, Holden, to keep taxes down, forced Columbia to add a clause providing payment in sums not exceeding $50,000 a year. So far, so shrewd-but Kwai has already grossed $8,500,000, is expected to end up with at least $25 million; 40-year-old Bill Holden will not be fully paid until...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness)-a magnificent war story (TIME...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness) -a magnificent story of war (TIME...