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| V. S. Naipaul | | A Bend in the River |
Famous line: "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
| Sir Malcolm Arnold | | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
Won an Academy Award
| 'The Lady Of Shalott' by Alfred Lord Tennyson | | On Either Side the River Lie Long Fields of Barley and of Rye |
| Eridanus | | The River |
Eridanus is the former name for river Po, the longest Italian river
| Bruce Springsteen | | The River (1980) |
| Sir Alec Guinness | | The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) |
Known for playing multiple complex characters and changing his appearance to suit. Reportedly hated working on Star Wars (1977) so much, Guinness claims that Obi-Wan's death was his idea as a means to limit his involvement in the film. Guinness also claims to throw away all Star Wars related fan mail without even opening it.
| 1957 | | The Bridge Over The River Kwai |
Directed by David Lean for Columbia
| General Stonewall Jackson | | "Let Us Cross over the River and Sit in the Shade of the Trees." |
Confederate States of America, d.1863, killed by "friendly fire"
| The Drones | | Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By (2005) |
Australian
| 1978 | | Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | | William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins |
Director: David Lean
| Alice Hoffman | | The River King (2005) |
Based on the 2000 book
| The River Wild (1994) | | Meryl Streep, Stephanie Sawyer and Joseph Mazzello |
Director: Curtis Hanson
| The Battle of The River Plate (1956) | | The True and Moving Story of a Mighty Sea Battle |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | | "Madness. Madness." |
Sir Alec Guinness and William Holden
| Pool of London (1951) | | A Drama of the River Underworld |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | | The Second World War, 1939-1945 |
By Pierre Boulle, 1952
| The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | | Second World War, 1939 - 1945 |
Fiction but borrows from the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942-43 for its historical setting.
| Humphrey Bogart | | Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
William Holden got the part
| Noel Coward | | Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
Alec Guinness got the part
| Cary Grant | | Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
William Holden got the part
| Charles Laughton | | Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
Alec Guinness got the part
| Ralph Richardson | | Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
Alec Guinness got the part
| The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | | "Madness. Madness." |
| The River Niger (1976) | | Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones and Louis Gossett Jr. |
Director: Krishna Shah. Also starred Glynn Turman, Jonelle Allen & Roger E. Mosley. Plot: An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams (Jones) is a house painter who moonlights as a poet...
| The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | | William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins |
IMDB: 8.5/10. Director: David Lean. Won 7 Oscars including best picture. Won 4 Baftas & 3 Golden Globes. National Film Preservation Board Award.
| Bridge on the River Kwai (1967) | | William Holden, Jack Hawkins and Alex Guinness |
The stiff-upper-lipped POWs help the Japanese construct a strategically crucial bridge then blow it up.
| David Lean | | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
| William Tierney Clark | | Designing the First Suspension Bridge to Span the River Thames |
Civil engineer. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges. Internationally, he is revered for his design of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge.
| Alec Guinness | | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
Best Actor - Drama, 1957
| Shears | | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
| Neil Young With Crazy Horse | | Down by the River |
1969; first appears on "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"
| Russ Morgan | | Cruising Down the River |
1949; 7 weeks as Billboard's #1; also recorded by Blue Barron reaching #1 on the Billboard chart for 2 weeks
| Take Me to the River | | Al Green |
1974 - inducted in 2011; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Carly Simon | | Let the River Run (1989) |
From the album "Working Girl (Original Soundtrack Album)"; winner of Academy Award for Best Original Song and Golden Globe Award for the same.