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'AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...'
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30th Academy Award
(1957)
Best picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald
Synopsis: It is the first of director David Lean's super-spectaculars, whose later epics include Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
Based on the true story of the construction of the Bangkok-Rangoon railway, the film portrays English World War II POWs (战俘) held in a Japanese camp in Burma during 1943.
They are ordered to build a bridge across the River Kwai by camp commander Colonel Saito, which will be used to transport Japanese munitions. British and American intelligence officers, led by a British Major Warden and guided by an American escapee named Shears, conspire to blow up the structure, but the commander Colonel Nicholson who supervises the bridge's construction has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans. Too late, he realizes the devastating consequences of his actions.
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