British Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) and his troops, newly captured, arrive at the camp, and a battle of wills is drawn between Nicholson, a stickler for regulations, and the hard-nosed Japanese commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa).
Prisoners from Japanese POW Camp 16, deep in the jungles of Thailand, are the forced labor building a railroad bridge over the River Kwai. Instantly one of my favorite films, The Bridge on the River Kwai is a tense, terrifying, absolutely riveting film about the ironies of war and the deadly psychological games enemy soldiers play with each other.
