David Lean

David Lean’s directorial debut. He shares credit with Noël Coward, who also produced, stars, and wrote the screenplay.

In a Japanese POW camp, a British Colonel (Alec Guinness) becomes obsessed with completing a bridge for the enemy, unaware that a commando (Jack Hawkins) and an escapee (William Holden) plan to blow it up.

David Lean’s epic chronicle of British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence’s role in the Arab uprising during World War I.