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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 drama, war film directed by David Lean. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 88 on Metacritic, 7.8 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 7 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 4 of 76 films from 1957 in our catalog and number 85 of 3,595 drama films.

Billed cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne.

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