The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Dinner with Saito

Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) tries several bribery tactics to convince Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) to order his officers to work on the construction of the bridge, but Nicholson will have none of it.

Directed by David Lean.

© Sony 2013

Released in 1957 by Sony.

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  • mood: Understated
  • mood: Tuff
  • primary-occasion: Grab a Bite
  • secondary-occasion: Dinner
  • prop: Whiskey
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  • setting: Camp
  • setting: Prison
  • theme: Rivalry
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  • theme: War
  • actor: Alec Guinness
  • actor: Sessue Hayakawa
  • director: David Lean
  • producer: Sam Spiegel
  • cinematographer: Jack Hildyard
  • composer: Malcolm Arnold
  • editor: Peter Taylor
  • role-name: Colonel Nicholson
  • role-name: Colonel Saito
  • screenwriter: Pierre Boulle
  • screenwriter: Michael Wilson
  • screenwriter: Carl Foreman
  • year: 1957
  • studio: Sony

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