People who have recourse to fingernail-biting in moments of stress are advised to grow them long in preparation for The Bridge on the River Kwai. In Pierre Boulle's screenplay, the bridge on the ...

it included the construction of bridges over the Kwai River Overall, the railway project led to the deaths of 90,000 Asian civilian workers and 16,000 PoWs Most of it was dismantled after the war ...