![]() ![]() He points out that the Geneva Conventions state that captured officers are exempt from manual labour. ![]() The next morning, when Saito orders everyone to work, Nicholson commands his officers to stand fast. He insists that all prisoners, regardless of rank, work on the construction of a bridge over the Kwai River, part of a railroad that is to link Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma. The Japanese camp commander, Colonel Saito ( Sessue Hayakawa), addresses them, informing them of his rules. ![]() A large contingent of British prisoners arrives, marching in defiantly whistling the Colonel Bogey March under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson ( Alec Guinness). One, American Navy Commander Shears ( William Holden), routinely bribes guards to get sick duty to avoid hard labour. Two prisoners of war are burying a corpse in the graveyard of a Japanese World War II prison camp in southern Burma. ![]()
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