As the leader of his fellow prisoners in a P.O.W. camp in Burma during World War II, Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) has resisted all efforts by its ruthless commander, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), to get his men to construct a bridge across a gorge of the strategic River Kwai. Yet, after coming to see it as a way to restore morale among his men, Nicholson capitulates and sets out to...
