About the only thing that can make one of the vaunted films of all time even better is if it's also a scathing anti-war film. Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove comes immediately to mind, of course, but David Lean's epic anti-war adventure The Bridge on the River Kwai merits equal consideration. In fact, it is arguably the best film of the 1950s. It is certainly the finest film of 1957, and in a refreshing upset, the Academy agreed, bestowing seven Oscars and eight nominations. Only Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito failed to pick up the statuette. The nonpareil Alec Guinness won … Continue reading The Great Anti-War Films The Bridge on the River Kwai