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Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, and Ann Sears in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

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    • The Geisha Boy (1958)

      A clip of Oscar®-winning Alec Guinness is cut into the film with theme music and Sessue Hayakawa dressed as his "Bridge" character Colonel Saito, as "Gilbert Wooley" (Jerry Lewis) watches the workers building an identical but ornamental garden bridge.

Featured in

    • The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (Short 1958)

      clips included
    • A Place to Go (1963)

      On a Movie Marquee
    • Concept (1964)

      Clip shown.
    • Pasternak (Short 1965)

    • David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago (Short 1965)

Referenced in

    • "What's My Line?" Errol Flynn (TV Episode 1957)

      Mentioned by name.
    • "What's My Line?" Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller & Jack Paar (TV Episode 1958)

      Bennett Cerf mentions this film.
    • Tank Force (1958)

      Story elements.
    • The Cousins (1959)

    • The Jack Benny Hour (TV Special 1959)

      Jack Benny mentions the film in a rant about Academy Award winners.

References

    • The General (1926)

      The train crash at the end uncannily mirrors the finale from Buster Keaton's The General.
    • Citizen Kane (1941)

      A man obsessed with building something forgets the true sense of it.

Spoofed in

    • The Geisha Boy (1958)

      Mr. Sikita (Sessue Hayakawa) is shown observing the construction of a minature version of the bridge while the workers whistle The Bridge on the River Kwai theme song
    • The Mouse That Roared (1959)

    • The Haunted Castle (1960)

    • "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes (TV Episode 1961)

      Flashback scene of a tall tale spun by Dobie, in which his father escapes from a Japanese POW camp and blows up the bridge.
    • "Beetle Bailey" Bridge on the River 'Y' (TV Episode 1963)

      title spoof

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