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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - 6 corrections

starring Alec Guinness, William Holden (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War

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The commandos going to blow up the bridge are covered in black tar (or paint) when they are finished setting the charges. But in the morning they are almost clean. [You don't think they would make cleaning their night camouflage off their faces an urgent priority, to stop the Japanese guards identifying them? They have hours to wash their faces.]

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In the final scene, when there was a skirmish between Alec Guinness, bridge demolition team and the Japanese soldiers, Guinness eventually falls on the detonator which blows up the bridge. But after that, all the Japanese soldiers just disappeared. Did that one guy with a mortar and a bunch of women take them all out? [There were not that many Japanese soldiers that left the bridge and we do see several bodies which is plausible given that the Japanese were in the open while the Brits were under cover. The other Japanese were killed in the bridge explosion.]

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When the British POW's are marching into the Japanese camp whistling Colonel Bogey, as they march behind Alec Guinness, you can see one of the British soldiers swinging the same leg and arm at the same time. [While unusual, this is by no means unheard of. It's the curse of drill instructors everywhere.]

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