Do not speak to me of rules, this is war, this is not cricket.
1957 Alec Guinness William Holden
I think I probably watched this when I was a kid, I thought it was a lot more brutal than it actually is.
Set during WWII in Ceylon in a Japanese POW camp, the English prisoners are forced to build a railway line and bridge accross the river. After initial differences are sorted in a very English manner the brits decide to actually build a good bridge as a legacy of their workmanship not knowing that other allied forces are planning to blow it up.
It's loosly based on true events and it's a good story, it's two and half hours long, but if they did a remake now it would be longer, there could be more to tell. It's very British in a 1950's sort of way.
Good show old chap, jolly good show.
7/10
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