Alec Guinness' IMDb page lists the legendary actor's top two movies as "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope" and "The Bridge on the River Kwai." These days, most people recognize Guinness as Obi-Wan ...

Cary Grant turned down one of the most celebrated roles of his era. The role was Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, director David Lean’s 1957 war epic. The American Film Institute ...

Possibly Lean's most complicated movie, Kwai is a towering work. A gripping drama, expertly put together and handled with skill in all departments. Its potency stems only partly from the boxoffice ...

Alec Guinness is a great actor known as a "chameleon actor" and a "master of disguise," so much so that you often cannot tell ...

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai, written by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel and the film's screenplay ...

Alec Guinness speaking to George Lucas while in character as Obi-Wan Kenobi on the set of "Star Wars" - Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images Alec Guinness' IMDb page lists the legendary actor's top two ...