Bridge On the River Kwai

Has a more British movie ever been made? The sheer Britishness of doing a futile task well for the sake of having done it well, even in service of the enemy is not nearly as heroic as the film tries to make it. I was surprised to learn Col. Shears was played by William Holden, since he looks very different in Network and the Wild Bunch. I didn't even realize he was in Sunest Boulvard. Alec Guinness did his usual suffering for a noble cause gig and the movie moved along and an entertaining enough pace. Geoffery Horne is a nice little diversion in the last quarter of the film.