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World War II drama, based on a true story, about four Allied POW's who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors, suffering greatly while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle.

Keywords:

Action, Drama, War, Historical, History, Based-on-True-Story, World War, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, WWII, WW2, World War 2

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (2001) (4 Star)

Cast:

Robert Carlyle	.... Campbell
Kiefer Sutherland	.... Lt. Jim Reardon
Ciarán McMenamin	.... Ernest Gordon
Mark Strong	.... Dusty
Sakae Kimura	.... Ito
Masayuki Yui	.... Noguchi

Supporting Cast:

James Cosmo	.... McLean
John Gregg	.... Dr. Coates
Shu Nakajima	.... Nagatomo
Yugo Saso	.... Takashi Nagase
Pip Torrens	.... Foxworth
Adam Sinclair	.... Jocko
Winton Nicholson	.... Duncan
Greg Ellis	.... Primrose
James McCarthy	.... Norman

Directors:

David L. Cunningham

Writers:

Brian Godawa
Ernest Gordon

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