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Kitulgala and the Classic Movie “Bridge on the River Kwai”-by Michael Roberts Chandran Rutnam and William Holden while shooting The Bridge on the River Kwai. Source:Thuppahis Nihal Rajapaksa has sent me three video clips[1] pertaining to that classic film “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” starring actors William Holden (American), Alex Guinness (British) and Jack Hawkins (British) – a film that was directed by David Lean and was shot in Ceylon in 1957  — with local links aided by the collaboration of Chandran Rutnam among other locals. Whatever your age, these clips are a “Must See” category (three specific web-references afe served up below in RED). The Bridge On The River Kwai Film Location Sri Lanka      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkcDQd1nww ONE: The first clip is quite remarkable in depicting the Kitulgala arena today – a landscape that has returned to nature and swallowed the elaborate film-set constructed over several months by the British-American film production team — a set that included a railway ...