The bridge on the River Kwai : The guns of Navarone Cover Image

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The bridge on the River Kwai : The guns of Navarone / Columbia Pictures.

Lean, David, 1908-1991 (Added Author). Holden, William, 1918-1981 (Added Author). Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000 (Added Author). Hawkins, Jack, 1910-1973 (Added Author). Thompson, J. Lee (John Lee), 1914-2002 (Added Author). Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003 (Added Author). Niven, David, 1910-1983 (Added Author). Quinn, Anthony, 1915-2001 (Added Author). Columbia Pictures. (Added Author). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) (Added Author). Bridge on the River Kwai: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins. (Cast). Guns of Navarone: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn. (Cast).

Summary:

Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, 162 min.): British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge for their WWII Japanese captors, unaware of an Allied mission to blow it up.

Guns of Navarone (1961, 156 min.): A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous mission to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns to that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. The team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.

Record details

Physical Description: 2 Blu-ray videodiscs (318 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Blu-ray.
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ©2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Bridge on the River Kwai special features: Crossing the bridge: picture-in-graphics track; Making of The bridge on the River Kwai; The Steve Allen show with William Holden & Alec Guinness; The bridge on the River Kwai premiere narrated by William Holden; rise and fall of a jungle giant; USC short film introduced by William Holden; an appreciation by filmmaker John Milius; photo gallery; trailers. Guns of Navarone special features: The Resistance dossier of Navarone; commentary with film historian Stephen J. Rubin; commentary with director J. Lee Thompson; 3 documentaries; 6 featurettes; narration free prologue; message from Carl Foreman.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Bridge on the River Kwai: directed by David Lean. Guns of Navarone: directed by J. Lee Thompson.
Participant or Performer Note:	Bridge on the River Kwai: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins. Guns of Navarone: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn.
System Details Note:	Blu-ray disc; requires Blu-ray player.
Language Note:	Bridge on the River Kwai: In English, French, Spanish or Portuguese with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean or Thai. Guns of Navarone: In English, French, or Portuguese with optional subtitles in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Korean, Spanish or Thai.