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realising "what have I done?") does not fall onto the plunger, and the bridge suffers only minor damage. Boulle nonetheless enjoyed the film version though he disagreed with its climax. After the film was released, the Thais faced a problem as thousands of tourists came to see the 'bridge over the River Kwai', but no such bridge existed due to Boulle's aforementioned misassumption. As the film and book meant to 'portray' the bridge over the Mae Klong, the Thai authorities officially renamed the river
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The 11th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, were held on 6 March 1958, to honor the best national and foreign films of 1957. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Henry Fonda in "12 Angry Men" Alec Guinness in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Heather Sears in "The Story of Esther Costello" Simone Signoret in "Les Sorcieres de Salem" "The Bridge on the River Kwai" - Pierre Boulle
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two major exceptions. Shears, who is a British commando officer like Warden in the novel, became an American sailor who escapes from the POW camp. Also, in the novel, the bridge is not destroyed: the train plummets into the river from a secondary charge placed by Warden, but Nicholson (never realising "what have I done?") does not fall onto the plunger, and the bridge suffers only minor damage. Boulle nonetheless enjoyed the film version though he disagreed with its climax. Many directors were considered
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Return from the River Kwai


Return from the River Kwai is a 1989 British film directed by Andrew McLaglen and starring Edward Fox, Chris Penn and Timothy Bottoms. It is not a sequel to "Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), although it deals with POWS of the Japanese in World War Two. The film is based on a 1979 factual book with the same name about a 1944 Japanese prisoner transport of 2,217 British and Australian POWs, who had been working as forced labour on the Burma Railway, building the bridge over the River Kwai
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He created the railroad. Did he really want the enemy to come in across it?” The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The British Film Institute placed "The Bridge on the River Kwai" as the 11th greatest British film. The 167-minute film was first telecast, uncut, by ABC-TV in color on the evening of 25 September 1966, as a three hours-plus ABC Movie Special. The telecast of the film lasted more than three hours because of the commercial
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The River Kwai March


"The "River Kwai" March" is a march composed by Malcolm Arnold in 1957. It was written as an orchestral counter-march to the "Colonel Bogey March", which is whistled by the soldiers entering the prisoner camp in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and again near the end of the film when the bridge is formally dedicated. The Arnold march re-appears (without the "Colonel Bogey March") several times in the film and is repeated at the finale. The two
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bombed. No remnants of the wooden bridge remain. That wooden bridge was also not the bridge depicted in the film as the river was not called the Kwai Yai at that time. A wooden trestle bridge was built over the Kwai Noi many miles upstream in the jungle and it would more closely resemble the bridge in the film. However, the film is really a fictional depiction of the events with many inaccuracies and neither bridge can really be said to be that depicted in the film. Up until the 1960s, the river
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. The river is chiefly known for its association with the Pierre Boulle novel, "The Bridge over the River Kwai" and David Lean's film adaptation of the novel, "The Bridge on the River Kwai", in which Australian, Dutch, and British prisoners of war and indigenous peoples were forced by the Japanese to construct two parallel bridges spanning a river as part of the Burma Railway, also called the "Railway of Death" or "Thai-Burma Death Railway", due to the many lives lost in
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of British Bandmaster Frederick J. Ricketts. The Colonel Bogey strain was accompanied by a counter-melody using the same chord progressions, then continued with film composer Malcolm Arnold's own composition, "The River Kwai March," played by the off-screen orchestra taking over from the whistlers, though Arnold's march was not heard in completion on the soundtrack. Mitch Miller had a hit with a recording of both marches. In many tense, dramatic scenes, only the sounds of nature are used. An example of this is
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Bridge 277, the so-called "Bridge on the River Kwai", which was built over a stretch of a river that was then known as part of the Mae Klong River. The greater part of the Thai section of the river's route followed the valley of the Khwae Noi River ("khwae", 'stream, river' or 'tributary'; "noi", 'small'. "Khwae" was frequently mispronounced by non-Thai speakers as "kwai", or 'buffalo' in
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played by Paul Gleason), walks into the room. English composer Malcolm Arnold added a counter-march, which he titled "The River Kwai March", for the 1957 dramatic film "The Bridge on the River Kwai", set during World War II. The two marches were recorded together by Mitch Miller as "March from the River Kwai – Colonel Bogey". On account of the movie, the "Colonel Bogey March" is often miscredited as the "River Kwai March". While Arnold did use "
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operation whenever the opportunity arose." A 1969 BBC-TV documentary, "Return to the River Kwai", made by former POW John Coast, sought to highlight the real history behind the film (partly through getting ex-POWs to question its factual basis, for example Dr Hugh de Wardener and Lt-Col Alfred Knights), which angered many former POWs. The documentary itself was described by one newspaper reviewer when it was shown on Boxing Day 1974 ("The Bridge on the River Kwai" had been shown
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had been a prisoner of war in Thailand, created the fictional Nicholson character as an amalgam of his memories of collaborating French officers. He strongly denied the claim that the book was anti-British, although many involved in the film itself (including Alec Guinness) felt otherwise. Ernest Gordon, a survivor of the railway construction and POW camps described in the novel/film, stated in a 1962 book, "Through the Valley of the Kwai": "In Pierre Boulle's book "The Bridge over the River Kwai
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towards them. Toosey later defended him in his war crimes trial after the war, and the two became friends. The major railway bridge described in the novel and film didn't actually cross the river known at the time as the Kwai. However, in 1943 a railway bridge was built by Allied POWs over the Mae Klong river – renamed as a result of the film Khwae Yai in the 1960s – at Tha Ma Kham, five kilometres from Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Boulle had never been to the bridge. He knew that
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Vengeance (2009 film)


forgotten who his friends are, but also what he is doing. The hitmen try to explain to Costello that he is seeking revenge for his daughter, but Costello does not recognize her, nor does he understand the concept of revenge. The three men give up in despair, and take him to a beach where they meet a pregnant woman (Michelle Ye) with a group of children. Kwai gives her a stack of money and ask her to take care of Costello. Kwai's syndicate return to Macau because they lost
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shot in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), and a bridge was erected for the purpose of shooting the film over Kelani River at Kitulgala, Sri Lanka. The film was relatively faithful to the novel, with two major exceptions. Shears, who is a British commando officer like Warden in the novel, became an American sailor who escapes from the POW camp. Also, in the novel, the bridge is not destroyed: the train plummets into the river from a secondary charge placed by Warden, but Nicholson (never
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Burma Railway


Thai). This gave rise to the name of "River Kwai" in English. In 1960, because of discrepancies between facts and fiction, the portion of the Mae Klong which passes under the bridge was renamed the Khwae Yai (แควใหญ่ in the Thai language; in English, 'big tributary'). This bridge was immortalized by Pierre Boulle in his book and the film which was based on it, "The Bridge on the River Kwai". However, there are many who point out that both Boulle's
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River Doe


The River Doe is a river in North Yorkshire, England. The river's source is near God's Bridge close to the settlement of Chapel-le-Dale and flows through Twisleton in a south-westerly direction to Ingleton, where it meets the River Twiss to form the River Greta. The river forms part of the River Lune system that flows into the Irish Sea. The source of the river is found at a place named God's Bridge where Chapel Beck disappears underground and the Doe begins. The river flows south
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. The Mae Klong is now called the Kwae Yai ('Big Kwae') for several miles north of the confluence with the Kwae Noi ('Little Kwae'), including the bit under the bridge. In 1962 Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, with Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, released the record "The Bridge on the River Wye", a spoof of the film version of "Kwai" based around the 1957 "Goon Show" "An African Incident". It was intended to have the same name
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attention and they were brought to Thanbyuzayat, with a promise of higher wages and comfortable stay. The labourers built wooden bridges in many places across river Kwai in order to lay the railway. The bridges were washed by the floods in the river. The labourers were forced to reconstruct the bridges. The labourers were fed with rice thrice a day, along with dried fish or murrel from the river. The conditions endured by the POWs of the Allied Forces were worse. Dressed in loin clothes they looked like skeletons. They looked
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Philip Toosey


Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey (12 August 1904 – 22 December 1975) was, as a lieutenant colonel, the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II. The men at this camp built Bridge 277 of the Burma Railway as later fictionalized in the book "The Bridge over the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle, and since adapted into the Oscar-winning film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" in which
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. Unlike the fictional Nicholson, Toosey was not a collaborator with the Japanese. Toosey, in fact, delayed building the bridge by obstruction. Whereas Nicholson disapproves of acts of sabotage and other deliberate attempts to delay progress, Toosey encouraged this: termites were collected in large numbers to eat the wooden structures, and the concrete was badly mixed. The novel was made into the 1957 film "The Bridge on the River Kwai", directed by David Lean, which won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Picture. This film was
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Pillar Island


Tsing Chau () or Pillar Island was an island in the Kwai Chung area of Hong Kong, sitting at the mouth of Gin Drinker's Bay, by the side of the Rambler Channel, opposite Tsing Yi Island. In the 1960s, the bay was reclaimed and Tsing Chau became a land extension of Kwai Chung, the south of which is Kwai Chung Container Terminals. In the early 1970s, a cross-channel bridge, Tsing Yi Bridge, was built landing on Kwai Chung where the island once was. The Kwai
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To End All Wars


produced by Jack Hafer and David Cunningham. The screenplay is based on the autobiography of Ernest Gordon and recounts the experiences of faith and hope of the interned men. The autobiography was originally published under the name "Through the Valley of the Kwai", then later as "Miracle on the River Kwai" (not to be confused with the separate novel "The Bridge over the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle). Gordon's book was finally re-issued with the title "To End All Wars" to tie in
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that Count Arthur speaks about wherever possible, is what he calls the ""Bridge Up The River Kwai"", where he claims to have appeared alongside Alec Guinness, apparently resenting the fact that Guinness got the part instead of him, although he does point out that he took over the role for the musical version. He also seems resentful that Sean Connery beat him to the lead role in "Doctor No", the title of which he often confuses with either Doctor Who or Doctor Dolittle. He has had roles
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the Imperial Japanese Army to build a bridge for the "Death Railway", so named because of the large number of prisoners and conscripts who died during its construction. The novel won France's "Prix Sainte-Beuve" in 1952. The largely fictitious plot is based on the building in 1942 of one of the railway bridges over the Mae Klong river—renamed Khwae Yai in the 1960s—at a place called Tha Ma Kham, five kilometres from the Thai town of Kanchanaburi. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Tiger Temple (closed) and is also home to a Vipassana meditation center. In 1942 Kanchanaburi was under Japanese control. It was here that Asian forced labourers and Allied POWs, building the infamous Burma Railway, constructed a bridge, an event portrayed in the films "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), "Return from the River Kwai", (1989) and "The Railway Man" (2013). Almost half of the prisoners working on the project died from disease, maltreatment, or accidents
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Empire of the Sun (film)


to be very personal. As a child, his favorite film was Lean's "The Bridge on the River Kwai", which similarly takes place in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Spielberg's fascination with World War II and the aircraft of that era was stimulated by his father's stories of his experience as a radio operator on North American B-25 Mitchell bombers in the China-Burma Theater. Spielberg hired Menno Meyjes to do an uncredited rewrite before Stoppard was brought back to write the shooting script. J.G. Ballard felt Bale
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Sessue Hayakawa


film in 1966. He died in Tokyo on November 23, 1973, from a cerebral thrombosis, complicated by pneumonia. He was buried in the Chokeiji Temple Cemetery in Toyama, Japan. Many of Hayakawa's films are lost. However, most of his later works, including "The Bridge on the River Kwai", the Jerry Lewis comedy "The Geisha Boy" in which Hayakawa lampoons his role in "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Swiss Family Robinson", "Tokyo Joe", and "
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Burma Railway


preserved section of line has been rebuilt at the National Memorial Arboretum in England. The construction of the railway has been the subject of a novel and an award-winning film, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (itself an adaptation of the French language novel "The Bridge over the River Kwai"); a novel, "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" by Richard Flanagan, as well as a large number of personal accounts of POW experiences. More recently, the motion picture "The Railway Man
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Kitulgala


Kitulgala is a small town in the west of Sri Lanka. It is in the wet zone rain forest, which gets two monsoons each year, and is one of the wettest places in the country. Nevertheless, it comes alive in the first three months of the year, especially in February, the driest month. The Academy Award-winning "The Bridge on the River Kwai" was filmed on the Kelani River near Kitulgala, although nothing remains now except the concrete foundations for the bridge (and, supposedly, the
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15th Golden Globe Awards


The 15th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1957 films, were held on February 22, 1958. "' "The Bridge on the River Kwai" "' "Les Girls" " "'Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai" Joanne Woodward - "The Three Faces of Eve" Frank Sinatra - "Pal Joey" Taina Elg - "Les Girls" Kay Kendall - "Les Girls" Red Buttons - "Sayonara" Elsa Lanchester - "Witness for the Prosecution" David Lean
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at the World Biosphere Reserve at Sinharaja, although in lower numbers. However, the secondary forest and cultivation at Kitulgala is more open than the pristine woodlands of Sinharaja, and elusive endemic species like Sri Lanka spurfowl, green-billed coucal and spot-winged thrush may be easier to see. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel "The Bridge over the River Kwai" by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction
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1997, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. It has been included on the American Film Institute's list of best American films ever made. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted "The Bridge on the River Kwai" the 11th greatest British film of the 20th Century. In early 1943, British POWs arrive by train at a Japanese prison camp in Burma. The commandant, Colonel Saito, informs
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to other films of the time said that Bridge on the River Kwai "carefully builds its psychological tension until it erupts in a blinding flash of sulfur and flame." Variety gave high praise for the movie saying that it is "a gripping drama, expertly put together and handled with skill in all departments." Significant praise was also given to the actors especially Alec Guinness, Variety said that "the film is unquestionably Guinness'". William Holden was also credited for his acting, he was said to give a solid
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the two blacklisted writers of "Bridge on the River Kwai"). It recounts the life of T. E. Lawrence, the British officer who is depicted in the film as uniting the squabbling Bedouin peoples of the Arab peninsula to fight in World War I and then push on for independence. After some hesitation, Alec Guinness once again appeared, in his fourth David Lean film, as the Arab leader, Prince Faisal, despite his misgivings from their conflicts on "Bridge on the River Kwai". French composer Maurice Jarre,
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Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, "The Bridge over the River Kwai" (1952) and "Planet of the Apes" (1963), that were both made into award-winning films. Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. He used these experiences in "The Bridge over the River Kwai", about the notorious Death
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Drigg


the south of the river. The river runs from Wastwater lake to the Irish Sea. There are three bridges over the river in the parish; the main bridge is in Holmrook which takes the A595 road over the river. The Cumbrian Coast Line railway crosses the River Irt at the head of the tidal estuary where the Irt joins the River Mite at Ravenglass. There is an old small packhorse bridge in the Drigg Holmes which does not take vehicles. Drigg railway station is on the Cumbrian Coast Line. The parish has a
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Peter Taylor (editor)


"For other people named Peter Taylor, see Peter Taylor." Peter Taylor (18 February 1922 – 17 December 1997) was an English film editor with more than 30 film credits. Perhaps his best remembered contribution is the editing of the 1957 film "The Bridge on the River Kwai". In his obituary for Taylor, Tony Sloman gives several examples to illustrate Taylor's editing. He writes: Taylor won an Academy Award for Film Editing for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), which was
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The Bridge on the River Kwai


The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel "Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï" (1952) by Pierre Boulle. The film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943. The cast included William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, and Sessue Hayakawa. It was initially scripted by screenwriter Carl Foreman, who was later replaced by Michael Wilson. Both writers had to work in secret, as they were on
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later on an airport tarmac in Cairo, sitting in the hot sun. Although it was not exposed to sunlight, the heat-sensitive colour film stock should have been hopelessly ruined; however, when processed the shots were perfect and appeared in the film. British composer Malcolm Arnold recalled that he had "ten days to write around forty-five minutes worth of music" - much less time than he was used to. He described the music for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" as the "worst job I
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The image was restored by OCS, Freeze Frame, and Pixel Magic with George Hively editing. On 2 November 2010 Columbia Pictures released a newly restored "The Bridge on the River Kwai" for the first time on Blu-ray. According to Columbia Pictures, they followed an all-new 4K digital restoration from the original negative with newly restored 5.1 audio. The original negative for the feature was scanned at 4k (roughly four times the resolution in High Definition), and the colour correction and digital restoration were also
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The Bridge over the River Kwai


The Bridge over the River Kwai () is a novel by the French novelist Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 and English translation by Xan Fielding in 1954. The story is fictional but uses the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–1943, as its historical setting, and is partly based on Pierre Boulle's own life experience working in Malaysia rubber plantations and later working for allied forces in Singapore and Indochina during World War II. The novel deals with the plight of World War II British prisoners of war forced by
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Saito. Saito announces that the prisoners will be required to work on construction of a bridge over the River Kwai so that the railroad connection between Bangkok and Rangoon can be completed. However, Saito also demands that all men, including officers, will do manual labor. In response to this, Nicholson informs Saito that, under the Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907), officers cannot be required to do hard work. Saito reiterates his demand and Nicholson remains adamant in his refusal to submit his officers to manual labor.
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" and the film which was based on it, the impression was given that British officers not only took part in building the bridge willingly, but finished in record time to demonstrate to the enemy their superior efficiency. This was an entertaining story. But I am writing a factual account, and in justice to these men—living and dead—who worked on that bridge, I must make it clear that we never did so willingly. We worked at bayonet point and under bamboo lash, taking any risk to sabotage the
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them that all prisoners, regardless of rank, are to work on the construction of a railway bridge over the River Kwai that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon. The senior British officer, Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson, informs Saito that the Geneva Conventions exempt officers from manual labour. Nicholson later forbids any escape attempts because they had been ordered by headquarters to surrender, and escapes could be seen as defiance of orders. At the morning assembly, Nicholson orders his officers to remain behind when the enlisted men march off to work. Saito threatens
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Khwae Yai River


an embankment dam for river regulation and hydroelectric power generation. The famous bridge of the Burma Railway crosses the river at Tha Makham Subdistrict of the Mueang District. However, this is not the same bridge as depicted in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle and in its film adaptation. A bridge was built of wood approximately upriver from the current bridge, during the construction of the iron and concrete bridge (which runs in a NNE-SSW direction) and also rebuilt in 1945 when the iron bridge was
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the commandos are sent to northern Thailand, where they rescue a Colonel Guinness, who in turn helps them destroy the bridge over the River Kwai by revealing its structural weakness. The bridge is blown up just as a train of the Imperial Japanese Army high command crosses it, plummeting into the river. In July 1942, the commandos land on the strongly fortified Savo Island to disable the large artillery guns, before Operation Watchtower can commence. While on the island, they are assisted by a castaway named Wilson. After destroying the
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Burmese border. They lashed together a raft from bamboo poles with the help of a local who had plied through the forest to reclaim rails from the death railway built by Allied war prisoners during the Second World War, a task made famous by the movie, “The Bridge on the River Kwai”. From the source of the River Kwai they floated down the river on a handmade raft, capsizing at times on unexpected steep rapids. It was supposed to be a seven-day adventure trip. No one had any idea
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Gang" beginning in 1950. The ensemble's hits included "The Children's Marching Song" (more commonly known as "This Old Man"), "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena", and "The Yellow Rose of Texas", which topped the U.S. "Billboard" chart, sold over one million copies in the United States alone, and reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart. Miller's medley of the two marches from "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The River Kwai March"
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, including Leadbelly, "Life Is Beautiful", "Cool Hand Luke", "Stir Crazy", "Take the Money and Run", "Carbine Williams", "The Longest Yard" and its 2005 remake, "Seven Days", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Von Ryan's Express", "Prison Break", "The X-Files", "Firefly", "Sullivan's Travels", "My Name is Earl", "The A-Team"
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Because of Nicholson's unwillingness to back down, he and his officers are placed in the "ovens"—small, iron boxes sitting in the heat of day. Eventually, Nicholson's stubbornness forces Saito to relent. Construction of the bridge serves as a symbol of the preservation of professionalism and personal integrity to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against Colonel Saito, the warden of the Japanese POW camp, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside,
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List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees


in person in 1953; hence the Academy does not consider this a posthumous award but a correction of the record. Similarly, the Oscar for Best Screenplay (Adaptation) for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" was originally awarded to Pierre Boulle, but only in 1984 corrected to honor the actual screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, who were on the Hollywood blacklist at the time and could only work on the film in secret. By the time this correction was made, both Foreman and Wilson had died, but
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Tsing Kwai Highway


Tsing Kwai Highway () is a section of Route 3 in Hong Kong, previously known as Route 3 - Kwai Chung Section. From its junction with West Kowloon Highway at Mei Foo Roundabout, the expressway runs in the form of a 3 km dual-4 lane viaduct atop Kwai Chung Road and Kwai Tai Road, circumscribing the container terminals to reach the Rambler Channel. Then, the highway crosses the channel along a 500 m bridge known as Cheung Tsing Bridge (or Rambler Channel Bridge), and ends at its junction with the
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Lai Chi Kok Bridge


as Laichikok Bridge in English. The Transport Department traffic census refers to it as the Lai Chi Kok Bay Bridge. It is also called the Kwai Chung Road Flyover in some government sources, but confusingly this name is also sometimes used to describe a different flyover farther west on Kwai Chung Road, close to Kwai Fong Estate. The bridge was built to link Kowloon with ongoing industrial and new town development in Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung, providing an alternative to the older, congested Castle Peak Road. Construction began in 1966.
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Billing (performing arts)


similar clause included in his own contract, effectively ending the hugely popular Gable-Tracy team. In the opening credits of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), Alec Guinness, who is generally regarded as the main character in the film, receives third billing, after William Holden (who demanded top billing) and Jack Hawkins (who does not even appear until halfway through the picture). In the closing credits, Guinness is billed second with Hawkins third. For "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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", writes that Pierre Boulle, who had been a prisoner of war in Thailand, created the fictional Nicholson character as an amalgam of his memories of collaborating French officers. Boulle outlined the psychological reasoning which led him to conceive the character of Nicholson in an interview which forms part of the 1969 BBC2 documentary "Return to the River Kwai" made by former POW John Coast. A transcript of the interview and the documentary as a whole can be found in the new edition of John Coast's book "Railroad of Death"
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cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires. In 1999, the British Film Institute compiled its list of the Top 100 British films; seven of Lean's films appeared on the list: In addition to this, the American Film Institute's 1998 100 Years...100 Movies list placed "Lawrence of Arabia" 5th, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" 13th and "Doctor Zhivago" 39th; in the 2007 revised edition, "Lawrence of Arabia" placed 7th and "The
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Bridge on the River Wye


Bridge on the River Wye is an album by members of the British comedy group "The Goon Show" and other humorists. It was produced by George Martin for EMI's Parlophone Records. It is a parody of the 1957 film "The Bridge on the River Kwai". The record stars Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook, and also features Peter Rawley and Patricia Ridgway, with incidental music composed and directed by Wally Stott. The script was written by Spike Milligan, based on an earlier script
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Duplicate Tsing Yi South Bridge


Duplicate Tsing Yi South Bridge () or Duplicate Tsing Yi Bridge (青衣複制橋) or Kwai Tsing Bridge (葵青橋) is a 640-metre long bridge connecting Tsing Yi Island and Kwai Chung over the Rambler Channel of Hong Kong in parallel to Tsing Yi Bridge, which deteriorated owing to years of heavy usage. The duplicated bridge was built to relieve the overburdened Tsing Yi Bridge and opened on 26 July 1999 before the commencement of Tsing Yi Bridge renovation. This is the fourth vehicular bridge connecting Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi. The duplicated bridge
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Saruhashi Bridge


the local people and one of the “Japanese Sanky Bridge”. Saruhashi Bridge It is crossing high over the valley of the Katsura River in Saruhashi-cho, Ōtsuki , Yamanashi Prefecture, which does not have any piers and is supported by four arrays of cantilever beams protruding from the river cliffs .Saruhashi at the higher place(above 31meters on the river) and width is narrow, the bridge pier does not need to be lower the riverbank, the bridge pier does not need to be lowered to the riverbank, due to the depth
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A Passage to India (film)


of Arabia", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", and "A Passage to India". On 15 April 2008, Sony released "A Passage To India (2-Disc Collector's Edition)". In addition to "Reflections of David Lean" from the 2001 release, bonus features included commentary with producer Richard B. Goodwin; "E.M. Forster: A Profile of an Author", covering some of the main themes of the original book; "An Epic Takes Shape", in which cast and crew members
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Tsing Yi South Bridge


Duplicate Tsing Yi Bridge serves inward traffic. A stone was erected on the Pillar Island end of the bridge in memory of the completion. The stone was moved to the Tsing Yi end to spare space for building the Tsing Yi Doubling Bridge. Tsing Yi Bridge is connected to Tsing Yi Road and Tsing Yi Heung Sze Wui Road on Tsing Yi Island, and Kwai Tsing Road and Tsing Kwai Highway in Kwai Chung. Tsing Yi Bridge is formed by 5 levers, identical pairs of arms supported by stands, 18 metres (60
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by the river current during a break from filming. The filming of the bridge explosion was to be done on 10 March 1957, in the presence of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, then Prime Minister of Ceylon, and a team of government dignitaries. However, cameraman Freddy Ford was unable to get out of the way of the explosion in time, and Lean had to stop filming. The train crashed into a generator on the other side of the bridge and was wrecked. It was repaired in time to be blown up the next morning
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The Loop, River Dart


, a fast break-in is needed and possibly a surf across the wave that forms next to it. River left is the ideal place to aim for. More small rapids follow. The last notable rapid on the river before Holne Bridge, which works best in medium to high levels. Reasonably large but predictable breaking waves carry you 50–80 metres down to Holne Bridge. There is no longer a take out facility at Holne Bridge. Continue down and take out river left above the weir (where there is not really any
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Kwai Fong


Kwai Fong () is an area of Kwai Chung Town, Kwai Tsing District, Hong Kong. The mainly residential area extends to Kwai Hing () in the north, Lai King in the south, Tsing Yi Bridge to the west, and Tai Lin Pai Industrial Area to the east. It is part of the reclamation of Gin Drinkers Bay in 1960s. Kwai Fong is named after Kwai Fong Estate, a public housing estate. Kwai () is the first Chinese character of Kwai Chung. Before the Mass Transit Railway
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Manualism (hand music)


was repeated many times on the annual "Best of Carson" shows. It is also included in the "Best of Johnny Carson" collection. Twomey introduced himself as "a manualist", the first known use of the term in a musical context. He appeared on several other programs including "The Mike Douglas Show" where he performed the "Colonel Bogey March," made famous in the film "The Bridge Over the River Kwai", and "The Merv Griffin Show" where he performed "When the Saints
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John Twomey (musician)


retired from "The Tonight Show". John Twomey, also a professional attorney and father of 7, appeared on several other programs including "The Mike Douglas Show" where he performed the "Colonel Bogey March," made famous in the film "The Bridge Over the River Kwai", and "The Merv Griffin Show" where he performed "When the Saints Go Marching In." Twomey's name appeared in the credits of a 1970s "Barney Miller" episode in which he provided off-camera manualism for a
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Volunteers (1985 film)


was a unit of Columbia Pictures, then owned by The Coca-Cola Company. Co-writer Levine denies this, stating that the scene appeared in the first draft of the film written in 1980, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was to be the studio. The film spoofs a number of David Lean epics, including "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Bridge on the River Kwai", with the Washington State University Fight Song used in place of the "Colonel Bogey March". The film debuted No.
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Kanchanaburi Province


Kanchanaburi (, ) is the largest of the western provinces ("changwat") of Thailand. The neighboring provinces are (clockwise, from the north) Tak, Uthai Thani, Suphan Buri, Nakhon Pathom, and Ratchaburi. In the west it borders Kayin State, Mon State, and the Tanintharyi Region of Myanmar. Tourists are attracted by the history of its ancient civilization and the World War II Bridge over the River Kwai, originally spelt "Khwae" but officially changed to Kwai to accommodate the expectations of tourists.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai


doubts about the sanity of Colonel Nicholson's efforts to build the bridge in order to show up his Japanese captors. The four commandos parachute in, though one is killed on landing. Later, Warden is wounded in an encounter with a Japanese patrol and has to be carried on a litter. He, Shears, and Canadian Lieutenant Joyce reach the river in time with the assistance of Siamese women bearers and their village chief, Khun Yai. Under cover of darkness, Shears and Joyce plant explosives on the bridge towers below the
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Top Gear controversies


the BBC regarding racist remarks. The "Top Gear" presenters go across Burma and Thailand in lorries with the goal of building a bridge over the river Kwai. After building a bridge over the Kok River, Clarkson is quoted as saying "That is a proud moment, but there's a slope on it." as a native crosses the bridge, 'slope' being a pejorative for Asians. "Top Gear" Executive Producer Andy Wilman responded: When we used the word slope in the recent Top Gear Burma Special
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi


take over something made famous by another filmmaker. Johnson responded: The story begins immediately after the last scene of "The Force Awakens". Johnson had his story group watch films such as "Twelve O'Clock High", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Gunga Din", "Three Outlaw Samurai", "Sahara", and "Letter Never Sent" for inspiration while developing ideas. He felt it was difficult to work on the film while "The Force Awakens" was being finished. In December
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The Bridge on the River Kwai


the railway ran parallel to the Kwae for many miles, and he therefore assumed that it was the Kwae which it crossed just north of Kanchanaburi. This was an incorrect assumption. The destruction of the bridge as depicted in the film is also entirely fictional. In fact, two bridges were built: a temporary wooden bridge and a permanent steel/concrete bridge a few months later. Both bridges were used for two years, until they were destroyed by Allied bombing. The steel bridge was repaired and is still in use today
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P. A. Ediriweera


the Mount Lavinia Hotel (where parts of Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed), Grand Oriental Hotel (Taprobane Hotel) and the Times of Ceylon where he became Chairman of the Board. Ediriweera visited Los Angeles in 1954 and met with executives of Universal Studios, United Artists and Horizon pictures who were persuaded to visit Ceylon to consider it a venue for film shoots. He also visited the United Kingdom, leading to the movie "Outcast of the Island" (1951) directed by Carol Reed being shot on locations in
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The Sand Pebbles (film)


happened and is happening in Vietnam." Arthur D. Murphy of "Variety" declared it "a handsome production, boasting some excellent characterizations. Steve McQueen delivers an outstanding performance." Philip K. Scheuer of the "Los Angeles Times" called it "adventure on the grand scale, of a kind on which the British have too long enjoyed an exclusive monopoly. 'The Sand Pebbles' earns a place up there beside 'The Bridge on the River Kwai,' 'Lawrence of Arabia,' 'Doctor Zhivago,'
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George Martin


Spike Milligan, with whom he became a firm friend, and best man at Milligan's second marriage: "I loved "The Goon Show", and issued an album of it on my label Parlophone, which is how I got to know Spike." The album was "Bridge on the River Wye". It was a spoof of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai", being based on the 1957 "Goon Show" episode "An African Incident." It was intended to have the same
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Crawl Space (Breaking Bad)


has to stay another week before he can safely travel, so he is left behind in Mexico. Jesse is told that he will take over cooking meth for Walter (Bryan Cranston), but Jesse insists that Walter must not be harmed. Gus later visits Hector (Mark Margolis), who is confined to a wheelchair in a nursing home. Hector is in the nursing home day room watching the climactic scene of "Bridge on the River Kwai". Gustavo tells Hector that all of the Cartel's leaders are dead,
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Top Gear challenges


the presenters decided that as all their cars had won an individual event, all three were the winners. All winners "Series Twenty-One, Episode Six and Seven" The three presenters find themselves travelling out to Burma for a road trip to Thailand and the River Kwai, each taking with them a second-hand lorry that they will use to build a bridge over it - Clarkson buys an Isuzu TX that has an extensive stereo setup in the cab and a dumper truck layout in the back, Hammond purchases another Isuzu
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Uttamanusorn Bridge


abbot of Wat Wang Wiwekaram. He initiated the construction of this bridge in 1986 with local Mon workers. The bridge was completed the following year. Uttamanusorn Bridge is considered a landmark and is one of the notable attractions of Kanchanaburi, as well as River Kwai Bridge and Death Railway, Sai Yok Noi Waterfall, and Three Pagodas Pass. Locals walk across the bridge to make merit by giving food to monks, a daily routine. In mid-2013, the bridge was destroyed by heavy rains and flash flooding flowing from Thung Yai Naresuan
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DOE Bridge over Laramie River


The DOE Bridge over Laramie River is a Pratt half-hip pony truss bridge located near Bosler, Wyoming, which carries Albany County Road CNA-740 across the Laramie River. The bridge was built in 1926 by contractor N.A. Swenson; it was originally part of the Lincoln Highway. In 1932, the bridge was replaced and moved to its current location. It is the only two-span Pratt half-hip truss bridge remaining in Wyoming. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1985.
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David Lean


Bridge on the River Kwai" placed 36th. As Lean himself pointed out, his films are often admired by fellow directors as a showcase of the filmmaker's art. In "The Rough Guide to Film", Tom Charity writes: Steven Ross has written that Lean's films "reveal a consistently tragic vision of the romantic sensibility attempting to reach beyond the constraints and restrictions of everyday life", and that they tend to feature "intimate stories of a closely-knit group of characters [whose] fates are indirectly but
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The Bridge on the River Kwai


Joyce from reaching the detonator. When Joyce is mortally wounded by Japanese fire, Shears swims across the river, but is himself shot. Recognising the dying Shears, Nicholson exclaims, "What have I done?" Warden fires a mortar, wounding Nicholson. The dying colonel stumbles towards the detonator and collapses on the plunger just in time to blow up the bridge and send the train hurtling into the river below. Warden turns toward the only survivors of the commando raid, the women bearers, and begs their forgiveness for having
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Pierre Boulle


not based on the real Allied senior officer at the Kwai bridges, Philip Toosey, but was reportedly an amalgam of his memories of collaborating French officers. Both the book and film outraged former prisoners because Toosey did not collaborate with the enemy, unlike the fictional Colonel Nicholson. Boulle outlined the reasoning which led him to conceive the character of Nicholson in an interview which forms part of the 1969 BBC2 documentary ""Return to the River Kwai"" made by former POW John Coast. A transcript of the interview and the documentary
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Hong Kong Marathon


Tsui, then going out to West Kowloon using Austin Road, followed by West Kowloon Highway and Tsing Kwai Highway, where half-marathoners turn back. Full-marathoners continue through Cheung Ching Tunnel, then do a return trip each on Tsing Ma Bridge and Ting Kau Bridge. Competitors then ran back all the way to West Kowloon, joining half-marathoners again at Kwai Chung, and into Western Harbour Crossing. The finishing point, however, was changed to Victoria Park instead of the Golden Bauhina Plaza in Wan Chai North
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Lan Kwai Fong (film)


Lan Kwai Fong (Chinese: 喜愛夜蒲) is a 2011 Hong Kong film directed by Wilson Chin, starring Shiga Lin, Zo, Jeana Ho, Jason Chan, Gregory Wong and Dada Chan. The film dwelt with subjects that were considered to be a "daring" in Hong Kong at the time. The film takes place in the Lan Kwai Fong square, a place known for its bars, nightclubs, neon lights and luxurious appearance. It is considered one of the more famous areas of the city. The film explores
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Michael Pelkey


"Bridge Day" event in Fayetteville, West Virginia on 15 October 2005, where 175,000 spectators converged over the course of the day to take part in the festival. Approximately 450 BASE jumpers from all over the world made more than 800 parachute jumps off the New River Gorge Bridge into the New River Gorge, below. The New River Gorge Bridge is the second highest span and one of the few places in the United States where BASE-jumping is legal for six hours, one day a year. Pelkey made his second
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William Holden


Seaton did not do as well, "The Proud and Profane" (1956), where Holden played the role with a moustache. Neither did "Toward the Unknown" (1957), the one film Holden produced himself. Holden had his most widely recognized role as an ill-fated prisoner in David Lean's "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) with Alec Guinness, a huge commercial success. He made another war film for a British director, "The Key" (1958) with Trevor
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Doe River


be approached as Class/Grade II. It takes approximately three hours to float down the Doe River on inner tubes from the Valley Forge put-in to the take-out near the confluence of the Doe River into the Watauga River. Putting in at Hampton High School and taking out at Valley Forge Elementary involves running class 2/3 rapids and is more difficult that the section below Valley Forge school. All river tubes and kayaks must portage around the weir dam that is located immediately downstream of the covered bridge in downtown Elizabethton.
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Burhan-ud-Din (Indian National Army officer)


15 February 1942. After being taken prisoner of war he volunteered for the Indian National Army. By 1944, Burhan-ud-Din was one of three IOC's of the Indian National Army. The Indian National Army was formed from Indian soldiers who were fighting for the British against the Japanese. They were captured by the Japanese and they were given a choice: Join the workers who were building the Death Railway including The Bridge on the River Kwai, or take up arms and fight against the British on the side of
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30th Academy Awards


The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26, 1958, to honor the best films of 1957. The Oscar for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium was awarded to Pierre Boulle for "The Bridge on the River Kwai", despite the fact that he did not know English. The actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson were blacklisted at the time and did not receive screen credit for their work. Foreman and Wilson have since been acknowledged by the Academy for their contributions. "Peyton Place" tied
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Rajendra Singh Babu


propelled him to the film industry. Hailing from a family of movie makers, Babu was fascinated with films such as "The Great escape", "Guns of Navarone" and "Bridge on the river Kwai." He believed that: Rajendra Singh Babu wrote the book titled "Nenanpina Muthina Hara" in memory of the great Kannada actor Vishnuvardhan. The book was a tribute to Vishnuvardhan, where Babu shares his numerous experiences with Vishnuvardhan. The book reveals the special bond Babu claims to have had with Vishnuvardhan. The book
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Shopper marketing


line where the first marketer would throw it over the wall to the second marketer and so on. The marketing organization structure was originally built around the big news at the time, the four Ps of marketing: product, price, placement and promotion. Other hot news as the time was that Elvis Presley was serving in the Army in Germany, Khrushchev became the Soviet Premier of the USSR, Alaska became an official state of the US and "Bridge Over the River Kwai" earned the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of
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Calder Willingham


on "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) for director David Lean. Willingham traveled to Ceylon, where he met with Lean, who disliked Willingham's writing, and Willingham soon returned to the United States. Stanley Kubrick first hired Willingham to adapt Stefan Zweig’s novel "The Burning Secret", but the project fell through and Kubrick eventually hired Willingham to work on the script of "Paths of Glory" (1957), which Jim Thompson had written earlier drafts. The specific contributions by Kubrick, Thompson
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Top Gear challenges


TX, but modified with extensive space for carrying large volume loads, while May acquires a Hino FB110 with a crane on the back. Starting their journey in the country's old capital of Rangoon, they continue through Naypyidaw, before crossing into Thailand. They are challenged with building a bridge across the River Kwai, then driving over it with their trucks, but realise when constructing the bridge that they are actually at the River Kok. All Winners "Series Twenty-Two, Episode Three" The men decide to improve ambulances
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Ian Watt


served with distinction in the Second World War as an infantry lieutenant from 1939 to 1946. He was wounded in the Battle of Singapore in February 1942 and listed as "missing, presumed killed in action". He had been taken prisoner by the Japanese and remained at the Changi Prison until 1945, working with other prisoners on the construction of the Burma Railway which crossed Thailand, a feat that inspired the Pierre Boulle book "The Bridge over the River Kwai", and the film adaptation, "The Bridge on the River
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Doe River


Watauga River. The first concrete arch bridge is the Elk Avenue Bridge in downtown Elizabethton; the second is locally known as the Broad Street Bridge and carries traffic on Tennessee State Route 67. Most of the Doe River section running between the Valley Forge put-in (LAT 36.310833 LONG -82.193055) and the take-out just before the Elizabethton confluence is classified on the International Scale of River Difficulty as Class/Grade I; however there are several brief segments of the Valley Forge-Charity Hill-East Side run that should
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The Bridge on the River Kwai


to have them shot, but Nicholson refuses to back down. When Major Clipton, the British medical officer, warns Saito there are too many witnesses for him to get away with murder, Saito leaves the officers standing all day in the intense heat. That evening, the officers are placed in a punishment hut, while Nicholson is locked in an iron box. Meanwhile, three prisoners attempt to escape. Two are shot dead, but United States Navy Commander Shears gets away, although badly wounded. He stumbles into a village
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Victoria Harbour


river vessels, for both goods and passengers. The Kwai Chung Container Terminals in the western part of the harbour is the main container handling facility, operating round the clock. Some 19.8 million containers (measured in TEUs) were handled by the region in 2016. Some 400 container ships serve Hong Kong weekly, connecting to over 500 destinations around the world. For many years until 2004, Hong Kong handled the most containers TEUs but slipped to sixth place on declining volumes by 2016. There is no bridge crossing the harbour,
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Burhan-ud-Din (Indian National Army officer)


the Japanese. Burhan-ud-Din became one of the commanders of the group who opted not to build the Bridge Over the River Kwai. When Rangoon fell to the British on 3 May 1945, Burhan-ud-Din was captured the same day and placed under arrest. He was charged with a wartime atrocity. Many men under his command had often left their posts to go into Rangoon in search of women, often not to return for several days. Burhan-ud-Din, a deeply religious man,
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