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The Bridge on the River Kwai Shows How Pride and Misplaced Sense of Duty Can Lead to Peril

Posted by Garrett Eberhardt — July 12, 2017 in Film Classics

The Bridge on the River Kwai is director David Lean’s classic 1957 World War II epic set in a Japanese POW camp in Burma. The camp is overseen by Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) of the Japanese army. Colonel…

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