The Bridge on the River Kwai (Columbia Pictures) (1964)

(Mat 2-A; Still No. 450A} William Holden, Alec Guinness and “Jack Hawkins star in Sam Spiegel’s "The Bridge on the River Kwai,’ the CinemaScope-Technicolor drama which won seven Academy Awards including that for “best picture." "Kwai" was ‘made by Spiegel and director David Lean, makers of the spec‘tacular “Lawrence of Arabia." : Advance Notice Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” Academy Award-winning CinemaScope-Technicolor adventure drama produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, makers of the Academy Awardwinning “Lawrence of Arabia,” opens at the Theatre. An impressive supporting cast is headed by Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears and newcomer Geoffrey Horne. Filmed on location in the tropical jungles of Ceylon, the Sam Spiegel production was directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Pierre Boulle based on his best-selling novel. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” was produced by Sam Spiegel, who made the Academy Awardwinning “On ‘The Waterfront,” “The African Queen” and, more recently, “Lawrence of Arabia.” David Lean The origins of motion picture directors are frequently fasci nating. For example, there is Academy Award-winning David Lean, who directed the Sam Spiegel production of “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” now BiG MUN OSs ee at Say she Theatre. For “Kwai” and, more recently, “Lawrence of Arabia,’ Lean won bf the “best director” Academy Awards; collectively, the two pictures won 14 Academy Awards including “best picture of the year.” Lean began his film career as a camera assistant with Gaumont Pictures at the Gainsborough Studios in England. Part of the time he worked as _ third assistant director, with duties varying from running messages to carrying afternoon tea. As he sped about the studio, he decided that its focal point was the cutting rooms, where the genius or mistakes of a director or actor could be examined in detail. David was willing to start again, to learn the cditing trade. He carried cans of film and studied the mechanies of cutting and splicing. Progressing rapid_ly, he soon had such films as “Pyemalion,” “Escape Me Never” and “The Invaders” to his credit, and became known as the best editor in the business. Noel Coward gave Lean his first chanee as a director with “In Which We Serve,” one of the finest British war films to be made. This was followed by such notable directorial efforts as “This Happy Breed,” “Blithe Spirit,” “Brief Encounter,” “Great Expectations” and “Oliver Twist.” “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” a Columbia Pictures release, stars William Holden, Alee Guinness and Jack Hawkins, with a supporting cast which ineludes Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears and Geoffrey Horne. Sam Spiegel | The name of Sam Spiegel, pro. ducer of the Academy Awardwinning Columbia Pictures release, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” now at the Theatre, has become recognized internationally as a guarantee of lasting quality, of unforgettable story content and of unquestioned taste. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” won seven Academy Awards, including that for “best picture of the year.” “Lawrence of Arabia,” produced by Sam Spiegel, also won seven Academy Awards including that for “best picture of the year.” His approach to films clearly reflects his 30 years of experience in the motion: picture industry. The Academy Awards and other international honors which have been accorded such other Spiegel productions as “African Queen,” “On The Waterfront” and “Suddenly, Last Summer” ‘also attest to Spiegel’s preeminence. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” stars William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins. Guinness, who won an Academy Award as “best actor of the year” for his performance in “Kwai,” also stars in “Lawrence of Arabia.” David Lean, who directed “Kwai” and won an Academy Award for his work, also won an Academy Award as “best director of the year” for “Lawrence of Arabia,” also a Columbia Pictures release. Motion pictures are Sam Spiegel’s life, his vocation and his hobby, a 24-hour-a-day dedication to which he gives his entire mental and physical energy. Because they have their uncertainties and their imponderables, he considers them more exciting and more rewarding than any thing else he can envision. He has a flair for seeing through conflicting details to the essential nub of a situation. William Holden William Holden launched his motion picture career in Columbia Pictures’ “Golden Boy.” Truly one of the “golden boys” of the screen, an Academy Award winner and one of Hollywood’s bestdrawing boxoffice names, Holden stars at the Theatre with Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins in Sam Spiegel’s Academy Award-winning production, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” the Columbia Pictures release in CinemaScope and Technicolor. “Kwai” was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, makers of the recent Academy Award-winning “Lawrence of Arabia.” Seven Academy Awards were accorded “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” including one for “best picture of the year.” Alec Guinness was voted best actor of the year and David Lean the best director, the same award he received for his direction of “Lawrence.” In “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” which is released by Columbia Pictures, Holden plays an American sailor who escapes from a Japanese jungle camp. He returns with two British commandos to destroy the war-vital bridge built by British prisoners for their Japanese captors. Holden won his Academy Award as “best actor” with his performance in “Stalag 17.” Among his other highly successful films are “Sunset Boulevard,” “Pienic,” and “The Key.” Alec Guinness Academy Award winner Alec Guinness stars at the Theatre in the Sam Spiegel production, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” Academy Award winner as the best picture of the year, with William Holden and Jack Hawkins also starred. Guinness reaches the zenith of an exceptionally brilliant career with his “best actor of the year” portrait of a British Army colonel eee ee eee ee eee ee eee _in the spectacular CinemaScope Technicolor drama, produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, makers of the more recent Academy Award winning “Lawrence of Arabia.” Guinness once was told he was wasting his time when he first auditioned for a _ stage role. Years later, following a considerable success on the stage in London and Broadway, he was told he was “not quite the type for a film actor.” -Guinness has quietly and gratifyingly made a world-wide reputation as a Shakespearean star. and has entranced and delighted film audiences with pictures like “Captain’s Paradise,’’ “The Man in the White Suit,” “The Ladykillers,” “The Lavender Hill Mob,” and “Our Man in Havana.” He is starred as Prince Feisal in “Lawrence of Arabia.” David Lean won the Academy Award ‘Oscar’ for his direction of “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” and Pierre Boulle wrote the award-winning screenvlay based on his own best-selling novel of the same title. Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears and Geoffrey Horne are featured in “Kwai,” which is distributed by Columbia Pictures. ESSE EEE LS TE EE a I EE I AE CID IIE ITA I IR CO ea The Bridge For ‘The River Kwai’ The largest outdoor movie set ever built for a film is a bridge, the focal point of the story and action in the highlyhonored Sam Spiegel production, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” Columbia Pictures’ release starring William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins at the Theatre. Produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, the same team which made the recent Academy Award-winning “Lawrence of Arabia,” “The Bridge on the River Kwai” is a CinemaSeope-Technicolor action drama which has won enthusiastic acclaim throughout the world. It received the Academy Award as “best picture of the year.” Other Academy Awards won by “Kwai” were: Best director, David Lean. Best musical seore, Maleolm Arnold. ey Best film editing, Peter Taylor. Best photography, Jack Hildyard. Best screen play adaptation, Pierre Boulle. A third longer than an American football field and as tall as a six-story building, the Ceylon jungle bridge which titles the film was eight months under construction at a cost of $250,000. The span is based on a sketch of an actual wartime bridge built by prisoners of war for their Japanese captors in World War II. The sketch had been scribbled on a tattered piece of cigarette paper and smuggled across the Japanese-held BurmaSiam jungle border to British headquarters. Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears and Geoffrey Horne are featured in “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” 7 Academy Awards “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” the Sam Spiegel production at the Theatre in CinemaScope and Technicolor, won 7 Academy Awards including “best picture.” Alec Guinness, who stars in the film with William Holden and Jack Hawkins, was named “best actor.” Director David Lean was named “best director,” and the film also won awards for best musical score, best film editing, best photography and best screen play adaptation, by Pierre Boulle from his own novel. A Columbia Pictures release, ‘Kwai’ also won some 30 other major international honors. eee we ewer General Advance Winner of seven Academy Awards, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” from the makers of the Academy Award-winning “Lawrence of Arabia,” opens eo eae at the .......Theatre. The Sam Spiegel production, a Columbia Pictures release, stars William Holden, Alec Guinness, who won the “best actor” award for his performance, and Jack Hawkins. David Lean, who won the “best direction” award for “Lawrence,” also won the same honors for “Kwai.” Filmed on location in the tropical jungles of Ceylon, the CinemaScope-Technicolor drama opens with Holden, an American seaman in a Japanese prison camp, watching as British officer Guinness marches his surrendered troops into the jungle compound as though they were on dress parade. Guinness undergoes torture rather than acquiesce in camp commandant Sessue Hayakawa’s order that British officers work beside their men in the construction of a war-vital railway bridge across the River Kwai. Holden, who intends to survive the war, fears Guinness’ definition of honor as much as he fears Hayakawa’s ruthlessness. He manages a desperate escape. Guinness’ stubborn courage forces Hayakawa to lose face but then, to prove that the prisoners are superior to their situation, Guinness takes command of the bridge construction and sees to it that the work is done. Holden, meanwhile, sees his romance with British nurse Ann Sears ended when he is “drafted” by the British because of his nersonal knowledge of the Kwai River situation. With commandoes Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne, Holden desperately struggles back through the jungle to destroy the Kwai Bridge. The screenplay for “The Bridge on the River Kwai” was written by Pierre Boulle based on his novel of the same title: he, too, won an Academy Award. Jack Hawkins Internationally known for his film work, Jack Hawkins has one of the most imvortant roles of his career in the Sam Spiegel production, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” the Columbia Pictures release now at the ....... Theatre with William Holden and Alec Guinness also starred. The CinemaScope-Technicolor drama was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, the makers of the recent Academy Award-winning “Lawrence of Arabia.” -Like “Lawrence,” “Kwai” also won the “best picture of the year’ Academy Award and six other Awards. In “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” Hawkins plays a British commando officer determined to blow up a war-vital bridge built for the Japanese by British prisoners of war. Holden is seen as an American seaman who accompanies Hawkins’ raiding party because of his special knowledge of the camp, from which he had escaped, and Guinness is the British colonel who takes special pride in the span his men are building. Guinness was voted “best actor of the year” for his “Kwai” performance. Director David Lean and screen play writer Pierre Boulle won Oscars for their work on “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” Review Some 30 major international awards have already been accorded Sam Spiegel’s production of “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” Academy Award winner of seven Hollywood citations, including that for “best picture.” Produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, who won similar Academy Award honors for their production of “Lawrence of Arabia,” “The Bridge on the River Kwai” is now at the Theatre in CinemasScope and Technicolor. William Holden, Alec Guinness, who won an “Oscar” for the “best performance by an actor,” and Jack Hawkins star in the swift exciting film. Based on Pierre Boulle’s bestselling novel, “The Bridge on the River Kwai” has its beginnings —and its overwhelmingly suspenseful climax—in a Japanese jungle camp early in World War II. Here Holden, as an American seaman who intends to survive the war, watches Guinness lead his surrendered men into their desperate captivity with all the pride of a professional officer. Holden manages to escape the jungle camp, as much in flight from Guinness as from Japanese commandant Sessue Hayakawa; both possess the stubborn military mind Holden can neither understand nor accept. As the casual American swept up in great events in spite of himself, Holden is superb. Guinness rates his “best actor of the year” award for his work as the British ‘officer and Hawkins plays a commando leader with a singleness of purpose and a sense of humor. Hayakawa is grimly realistic as the Japanese commander; James Donald, excellent as a British doctor. Ann Sears plays a nurse who shares with Holden a tenderly romantic interlude, and Geoffrey Horne makes a vivid young commando. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” is a superb motion picture that is well worth seeing, again and yet again. é ay = Kwai’ Music The whistling tune heard in Sam Spiegel’s Academy Awardwinning CinemaScope-Technicolor production, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” now at the Theatre, continues as one of the top musical numbers on the air waves across the country. Maleolm Arnold won one of the film’s seven Oscars for the musieal score. “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” made by producer Sam Spiegel and director David Lean, makers of the recent Academy Award-winning “Lawrence of ee ey Arabia,” stars William Holden, Alec Guinness, who won the “best ector of the year” award for his performance, and Jack Hawkins. (Mat I-A; Still No. 126A) "Best actor of the year'' Alec Guinness and William Holden portray prisoners of war in "The Bridge on the River Kwai,"" Sam Spiegel's CinemaScope-Technicolor production. Jack Hawkins also stars in the much honored film. "Kwai" was made by producer Sam Spiegel and director David Lean, makers of ''Lawrence of Arabia.” PRINTED IN U. S.A