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The Bridge on the River Kwai
4:20 pm - 8:00 pm Saturday, November 7
The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean's epic won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Alec Guinness as the leader of British POWs forced to build a railroad bridge in World War II Indochina. Filmed in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Oscar-winning screenplay by Carl Foreman.
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Colonel Nicholson
Major Warden
Colonel Saito
Lieutenant Joyce
Colonel Green(as Andre Morell)
Captain Reeves
Major Hughes
Grogan
Nurse
Captain Kanematsu(as Henry Okawa)
Lieutenant Miura(as Keiichiro Katsumoto) (as K. Katsumoto)
Yai
Siamese Girl
Siamese Girl
Siamese Girl
Siamese Girl
Maj. Clipton
Capt. Kanematsu
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