![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are also some important differences, of course. Like last year's Around The World In Eighty Days, it's an adaptation of a French novel about an Englishman's encounter with Asia, with the spectacular collapse of railway bridge near the end. It is a problematic film in terms of race and gender, but it is spectacular in its execution on every level, and I'm bumping it right to the top of my table, in fifth place just behind the greatest of all war films, All Quiet on the Western Front, and just ahead of the soldiers returning in The Best Years of Our Lives. (You can see my aunt dancing in the embassy scene about 38 minutes into The 7th Dawn, if you want to check.) I'd love to go.īack to The Bridge on the River Kwai. I've never been to South East Asia, though I have a number of links there - my godfather and one of my uncles actually fought in the Burma campaign my father was born in Malaysia my niece was born in Vietnam my aunt appears as an extra in The 7th Dawn, which is set in Malaysia a few years later and also stars William Holden along with my aunt's schoolfriend Susannah York. ![]()
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