This week we review the 1957 epic war film The Bridge on the River Kwai directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle.

Alec Guinness stars as Colonel Nicholson, a British officer imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp run by Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), where he's forced to build a railway bridge.

After initially resisting Saito's demands that officers perform manual labor, Nicholson paradoxically becomes obsessed with building the best bridge possible, viewing it as a monument to British ingenuity.

Meanwhile, escaped American prisoner Commander Shears (William Holden) is recruited by Major Warden (Jack Hawkins) to return and destroy the bridge, leading to a climactic finale where Nicholson must confront the reality that his pride has led him to aid the enemy, culminating in tragedy as the bridge is destroyed.

Despite our best efforts we still got the name of the movie wrong at the intro....it gets better from there and we somehow deep dive into the Aussie's relationship with his mother right from the start. A little pyscho-analysis from the Scotsman and a shout out to the Aussie's mum, Lea.

This movie takes the Aussie by surprise and do you think he liked it? We know he is not one for older movies.

Embarassingly the Aussie does not know that Sir Alex Guiness played Obi Wan Kenobi - what kind of a movie reviewer does not know that.

At the end prepare yourself ahe Scotsman regales us with the words to the tune of Colonel Bogey while trying to imitate Alec Guiness at every opportunity.

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