Depois de resolver suas diferenças com um japonês, o comandante do campo, um coronel britânico, coopera para supervisionar a construção de uma ponte ferroviária.Depois de resolver suas diferenças com um japonês, o comandante do campo, um coronel britânico, coopera para supervisionar a construção de uma ponte ferroviária.Depois de resolver suas diferenças com um japonês, o comandante do campo, um coronel britânico, coopera para supervisionar a construção de uma ponte ferroviária.
- Ganhou 7 Oscars
- 30 vitórias e 7 indicações no total
- Colonel Green
- (as Andre Morell)
- Captain Kanematsu
- (as Henry Okawa)
- Lieutenant Miura
- (as Keiichiro Katsumoto, K. Katsumoto)
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Pierre Boulle
- Carl Foreman(originally uncredited)
- Michael Wilson(originally uncredited)
- Elenco e equipe completos
- Produção, bilheteria e muito mais no IMDbPro
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- CuriosidadesColonel Saito was inspired by Major Risaburo Saito, who, unlike the character portrayed in this movie, was said by some to be one of the most reasonable and humane of all of the Japanese prison camp commandants, usually willing to negotiate with the P.O.W.s in return for their labor. Such was the respect between Saito and Lieutenant Colonel Toosey (upon whom Colonel Nicholson was based), that Toosey spoke up on Saito's behalf at the war crimes tribunal after the war, saving him from the gallows. Ten years after Toosey's 1975 death, Saito made a pilgrimage to England to visit his grave.
- Erros de gravaçãoJapan was not a signatory of the Geneva Conventions until 1953, therefore there was no expectation by Allied prisoners of being treated in accordance with them. In fact, the Japanese mistreatment of prisoners of war led to the review and update of the conventions in 1949.
- Citações
Maj. Warden: You'll go on without me. That's an order. You're in command now, Shears.
Commander Shears: You make me sick with your heroics! There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills - they go well together, don't they? And with you it's just one thing or the other: destroy a bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war! You and Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules - when the only important thing is how to live like a human being!... I'm not going to leave you here to die, Warden, because I don't care about your bridge and I don't care about your rules. If we go on, we go on together.
- Cenas durante ou pós-créditosAnd introducing Geoffrey Horne
- Versões alternativasVarious versions have different main credits. There is the original that gives screenplay credit to Pierre Boulle, there is the restored version in which previously blacklisted Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson are credited and there is the original version that was distributed to cinemas at the time still lacking in CinemaScope equipment in which the Cinema Scope credit is omitted and the credits formatted to fit the smaller frame.
- ConexõesEdited into O Rei dos Mágicos (1958)
- Trilhas sonorasColonel Bogey March
(1914) (uncredited)
Music by Kenneth Alford
Arranged by Malcolm Arnold
Whistlers trained by John Scott
Whistled by Alec Guinness with British Prisoners of War
When I last saw it, I realised that there was something in the movie that I had never understood, this isn't a movie about war, torture or how it was to be a prisoner of war; this is a movie about madness and pride. The pride shows both in Saiko and Colonel Nicholson, they are so full of it that it is almost impossible for them to come to a civil-conclusion with the problems they have with each other. The madness is shown in Colonel Nicholson and Holden's character - here they are, two prisoners of war and they don't want to help each other out, instead they try to reach separate goals, and they are both willing to die for it.
After you have watched this movie one is amazed by the performances made by Alec Guinness and William Holden and I must say that this is therefore one of the best War/Drama movies ever made My vote? 9 out of 10 naturally.
- Haplo-4
- 22 de fev. de 1999
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Detalhes
Bilheteria
- Orçamento
- US$ 3.000.000 (estimativa)
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 27.200.000
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 27.200.463
- Tempo de duração2 horas 41 minutos
- Cor
- Mixagem de som
- Proporção
- 2.55 : 1