Word: kwai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tropical swamps 140 years ago. Sir William, the last British Governor, had his own particular ties to Singapore. As a corporal captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore, Sir William was one of the hard-worked British prisoners who built the famed bridge over the River Kwai...
...Palais de Chaillot. Limiting his decorations solely to the Legion of Honor, Old Soldier de Gaulle smiled properly and offered affable greetings to Movie Luminaries Yul (The Sound and the Fury) Brynner, Sophia (The Black Orchid) Loren, Maurice (Count Your Blessings) Chevalier, William (The Bridge on the River Kwai) Holden, Cary (An Affair to Remember) Grant...
...appearing in Bridge on the River Kwai, William Holden agreed to 10% of the gross, but for tax reasons wanted it paid to him at the rate of only $50,000 a year. The picture has already made so much money (between $20 and $30 million) that Holden's share now stands at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. Not only will it take 40-year-old Holden at least 40 years to get the last of his money, but Columbia can in the meantime invest it and make well over $50,000 a year, thus...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Adapted from Pierre (The Bridge over the River Kwai) Boulle's novel, Face of a Hero should at least prove the novelist's versatility as it switches from the Far East to small-town melodrama in the U.S. South. With Jack Lemmon, James Gregory and Rip Torn...
...element at last. But the lean-muscled American virtues that Bond and Horton personify never seemed so attractive as they did in last week's Sakae Ito Story, when they were played off against the sensitive acting of that oldtime film villain, Sessue (Bridge on the River Kwai) Hayakawa...