Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) - (Movie Clip) Colonel Bogey March

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Is It The Sun?

One of the momentous cuts for which director David Lean is known, British and Japanese officers Clipton and Miura (James Donald, Keiichiro Katsumoto) lament the conflict between their superiors, then the climax of the escape attempt by American prisoner Shears (William Holden), in The Bridge on the River Kwai, (1957).

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) They Might All Run Away

We meet American prisoner Commander Shears (William Holden) and a fellow grave-digger (Harold Goodwin) schmoozing Lt. Miura (Keiichio Katsumoto) for sick-list time, before the Brits arrive at the Japanes prison camp in occupied Burma, in The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957.

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) It Will Be Pleasant Work

Japanese prison camp commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) addressing just-arrived British Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) and his troops, seeds of conflict in David Lean's The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) He's Done It!

Triumphal moment from director David Lean, as Col. Nicholson (Alec Guinnes) is summoned from "The Oven" by Japanese prison-camp commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), who agrees to exempt British officers from manual labor, in The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.