The Bridge On the River Kwai/Das Boot/The Guns of Navarone

Box set containing three classic war movies. 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) is David Lean's classic British war film based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. A group of British POWs are forced to build a bridge in Burma for the Japanese. Led by Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) they not only build the bridge but organise the whole building programme and are proud of the final result. However, unbeknownst to the POWs, a British commando team has been given a mission to destroy it. 'Das Boot' (1981) is a gripping account of a German U-96 submarine in action during World War Two. The crew's long periods of boredom are contrasted with the claustrophobic terror they experience when engaging the enemy. In 'The Guns of Navarone' (1961), in 1943 a group of mismatched Allied soldiers are sent to sabotage two powerful Nazi guns situated on a Greek island. If their mission fails, the guns will wipe out the 2,000 British soldiers who are attempting to evacuate civilians further down the coast. The mission is led by the dispassionate Captain Mallory (Gregory Peck), whose clinical approach does not find favour with explosives expert Corporal Miller (David Niven). Meanwhile, the group's Greek patriot guide Andrea Stavros (Anthony Quinn) is nursing a grudge against Mallory for an old injustice.

Director: David Lean
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Producer: Carl Foreman
Producer: Günter Rohrbach
Writer: Carl Foreman
Writer: Michael Wilson
Writer: Wolfgang Petersen
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Music: Malcolm Arnold
Music: Klaus Doldinger
Actor: Alec Guinness
Actor: Jack Hawkins
Actor: Sessue Hayakawa
Actor: Jürgen Prochnow
Actor: William Holden
Actor: Herbert Gronemeyer
Actor: James Donald
Actor: Klaus Wennemann
Actor: Hubertus Bengsch
Actor: André Morell
Actor: Martin Semmelrogge
Actor: Geoffrey Horne
Actor: Ann Sears
Actor: Bernd Tauber
Actor: Percy Herbert
Actor: Erwin Leder
Actor: Gregory Peck
Actor: John Boxer
Actor: Martin May
Actor: David Niven
Actor: Anthony Quinn
Actor: Stanley Baker
Actor: Anthony Quayle
Actor: James Darren
Actor: Irene Papas
Actor: Richard Harris
Actor: James Robertson Justice
Actor: Gia Scala