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The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) | bilibili

British POWs are ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance and are happy to sabotage and delay the progress until their commanding officers orders them to continue the work unhindered to its completion,....

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[Richard in NY*]

Putting aside the matter of historical accuracy it’s a wonderful movie.

Thanks for posting the link.

 

[Clyde]

Yes, great movie, but far, far from the way things really were. Read THE RAILWAY MAN sometime. The movie people had a great idea (for visuals) in having the POWs building a bamboo copy of the Forth Bridge. And of course we never sent in a demolition tam to blow it up.

 

[Big Coulee]

Yes, it is a great movie and I watch it at least once a year. But it is a Hollywood production and has very little historical accuracy. At least the movie was produced before the movie industry fell into the slime pit of foul (#%&*) dialog and bare skin.

 

[Zygodactyl]

Good movie. My wife taught the parrot to whistle the theme song.

 

[curly1]

Finished The Forgotten Highlander last week, incredible will to survive by anyone who made it out the otherside of that nightmare..

 

[milprileb]

Walked the bridge in Thailand many times over the river. A steel bridge, with Tokyo manufacturer maker . Of course not the one in the movie but it is the bridge over River Kwai. There is a museum near the bridge site, worthless actually but with a Thai counter part who spoke fluent English we went into the museum and met the curator. I told my buddy to ask this guy where is anything Japanese in this museum...rifles, swords, bayonets etc. The Curator when asked responded "What Japanese". My Thai buddy went into hysterics and told me this. I told him...tell him the Japanese who built that bridge over the river. Well when told that, the curator said " Oh , those Japanese".

History...not a strong point .

 

[perchman]

Your saying that movie wasn't correct to history!? Wuuuut? Say it ain't so!😵

 

[Clyde]

Your saying that movie wasn't correct to history!? Wuuuut? Say it ain't so!😵

Was and was not. Under the category of "Was": There was (and is) a River Kwai. There was a crossing by bridge built during WWII, under Japanese auspices and POWs were used as labor. Under horrific conditions (read THE RAILWAY MAN sometime). Under "Was not": The bridge did NOT resemble the one in the movie. It was not blown up by Commandos. Neither the Alec Guinness nor William Holden characters had real-life counterparts.

 

[Prepper_Pig]

Great movie for sure. Don’t forget to catch A Bridge Too Far as well!

 

[Big Coulee]

Not to change the subject too much, but while living in Germany I visited the site on the Rhine river at Remagen where what remains of the bridge destroyed by the Allies is still there. A museum with some interesting items is a nice place to visit. Of course most of the shattered remains have been removed to make way for river traffic. There are very good restaurants in the town and it is an excellent place to spend a day or two.

 

[13centkiller]

Finished The Forgotten Highlander last week, incredible will to survive by anyone who made it out the otherside of that nightmare..

Great book

 

[perchman]

Was and was not. Under the category of "Was": There was (and is) a River Kwai. There was a crossing by bridge built during WWII, under Japanese auspices and POWs were used as labor. Under horrific conditions (read THE RAILWAY MAN sometime). Under "Was not": The bridge did NOT resemble the one in the movie. It was not blown up by Commandos. Neither the Alec Guinness nor William Holden characters had real-life counterparts.

I don't figure many of those movies have much more than a basic resemblance to the real thing. I really like the clasic war movies anyway. The more actual film footage the better. And knowing what kind of human losses the U.S suffered in wars makes the real footage quite sobering.

 

[Clyde]

Not to change the subject too much, but while living in Germany I visited the site on the Rhine river at Remagen where what remains of the bridge destroyed by the Allies is still there. A museum with some interesting items is a nice place to visit. Of course most of the shattered remains have been removed to make way for river traffic. There are very good restaurants in the town and it is an excellent place to spend a day or two.

The pillars in the river were still there when i was stationed in Germany in the mid-60s, but they have since been removed as I understand it. The shore-side structure (at least on the right, eastern, bank where the little museum was (and may still be) was apparently not removed. The collapsed steel superstructure was removed immediately after the war to reopen the river to traffic, and the bridge (Ludendorffer Brucke) not rebuilt as it was built for military purposes in WWI and was not deemed required after WWII ended. I went by the site and grabbed some slides before i left Germany for Vietnam (of the two places - Germany was a great deal better, even with concern's about being jumped by the Big, Bad Red Bear).

 

[milprileb]

I'll translate that exchange of Big C and Clyde...they agree the local beer near where that bridge once stood is outstanding.

 

[Big Coulee]

Yes, the little side walk cafe's not very far from the bridge site were excellent as well.

 

[Clyde]

I'll translate that exchange of Big C and Clyde...they agree the local beer near where that bridge once stood is outstanding.

Not to mention local wines...

 

[Greedo1977]

The original march. Also I believe part of the Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack was taken from another old British march, Voice of the Guns.

I enjoyed this movie growing up. Like others said it really had no historical accuracy but was a lot of fun to watch. Makes me want to go digout the old VHS collection and watch again! Can’t beat the nostalgia watching classic war movies on a CRT screen!