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    The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel and the...
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  • The Bridge over the River Kwai (French: Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï) is a novel by the French novelist Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 and English...
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  • Organisation. The 1957 movie The Bridge on the River Kwai popularized The River Kwai March, a counter-march to Colonel Bogey March. In the 1961 movie The Parent...
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    not the same bridge as depicted in The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle and in its film adaptation. A bridge was built of wood approximately 100...
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  • River Kwai can refer to two rivers in western Thailand, a film or a novel: Khwae Yai River Khwae Noi River The Bridge on the River Kwai, film The Bridge...
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    adaptation of the novel, The Bridge on the River Kwai, in which Australian, Dutch, and British prisoners of war and indigenous peoples were forced by the Japanese...
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  • whistled by the soldiers entering the prisoner camp in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai and again near the end of the film when the bridge is formally...
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    Kitulgala is a small town in the west of Sri Lanka. The Academy Award-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed on the Kelani River near Kitulgala, although...
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  • Pierre Boulle (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning...
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  • familiarity increased after its use in a scene in the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai. The song has been cited as an example of morally-correct...
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