Top Ten War Movies - #5

Number Five on the list.

It is getting tougher to make the cut.

This 1957 classic starred William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins.

Sometimes in the broader context of was are found smaller and more personal wars. The Bridge on the River Kwai does a terrific job of portraying just such a situation. Plus the British stiff upper lip.

Although a work of fiction - the film is loosely-based upon the building of a bridge in 1943 over a river for the Burma-Siam railway.

It is best remembered for the tune whistled by the POWS - The Colonel Bogey March.