Siddhesh Joshi (Editor)

Return from the River Kwai

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
5.2
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron5.2
5.2
1 Ratings
100
90
80
70
60
51
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Director
  
Andrew V. McLaglen

Genres
  
War film, Drama

Country
  
United Kingdom

5/10
IMDb

Music director
  
Duration
  

Language
  
English

Return from the River Kwai movie poster

Release date
  
7 April 1989 (1989-04-07) (UK)

Based on
  
Return from the River Kwai by Joan & Clay Blair Jr.

Writer
  
Joan Blair (book), Clay Blair Jr. (book), Sargon Tamimi (screenplay), Paul Mayersberg (screenplay)

Cast
  
(Seaman Miller), (Lt. Commander Hunt), (Lieutenant Tanaka), (Major Benford),
Paul Holme
(Benford's Patient), (Lieutenant Crawford (as Christopher Penn))

Similar movies
  
Related Andrew V McLaglen movies

Return from the River Kwai is a 1989 British film directed by Andrew McLaglen and starring Edward Fox, Chris Penn and Timothy Bottoms.

Contents

Return from the River Kwai movie scenes

The film is based on a 1979 factual book with the same name about a 1944 Japanese prisoner transport of 2,217 British and Australian POWs, who had been working as forced labour on the Burma Railway, building the famous bridge over the River Kwai. They were taken by railway to Singapore, and from there aboard two ships, Rakuyo Maru and Kachidoki Maru, destined for Japan. On 12 September 1944, both ships were torpedoed by US submarines, and 1,559 of the prisoners perished.

Return from the River Kwai movie scenes

When released in the United Kingdom, the film carried a disclaimer that it was not related to or a sequel to the 1957 David Lean film The Bridge on the River Kwai. Nonetheless, due to legal disputes over the title with the US owners of the 1957 film, Return from the River Kwai was never released theatrically in the USA or Canada.

Return from the River Kwai wwwgstaticcomtvthumbmovieposters11566p11566

Return from the river kwai 1989 intro


Cast

  • Edward Fox as Major Benford
  • Chris Penn as Lieutenant Crawford
  • Denholm Elliott as Colonel Grayson
  • Timothy Bottoms as Seaman Miller
  • Tatsuya Nakadai as Major Harada
  • George Takei as Lieutenant Tanaka
  • Nick Tate as Lt. Commander Hunt
  • References

    Return from the River Kwai Wikipedia
    Return from the River Kwai IMDb Return from the River Kwai themoviedb.org


    Similar Topics