However, there are some more unusual issues. The bridge wasn’t really over the River Kwai. It was over the Mae Khlung River not the Kwai. Boulle had not visited the area before writing his tale.

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The movie-makers toned down much of the brutality that actually took place when British PoWs were forced by their Japanese captors to build a railway bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand.

A war between nations is innately a clash of cultures. Pierre Boulle's best-selling novel "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," first published in English in 1954 and made into a movie by David Lean ...