Saturday (30/4) 13:00 ITV4 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (also Monday 10:55)
David Lean's 1957 best picture Oscar winning wartime epic tells the story of the moral British Colonel Nicholson (Oscar winning Alec Guinness) who heads a consignment of POWs in a Japanese concentration camp in Thailand. The prisoners are ordered to build a railway bridge for their captors, at first Nicholson resists, but relationships evolve and his natural perfectionism makes the project an obsession. A story of cultures clashing, adversity and Britishness in the face of oppression, plus a famously impressive stunt to finish. Voted by the BFI as the 11th greatest British film of the 20th Century.
Friday (6/5) 22:45 ITV Speed (1994)
Keanu Reeves stars as an LAPD SWAT officer alongside Sandra Bullock and a villainous Dennis Hopper in a classic of 90s action cinema. A bomb has been planted on a bus by a terrorist with a hidden past and will detonate if the vehicle's speed drops below 50mph. It can not be disarmed or disconnected so they must find inventive ways of saving the passengers and keeping the speed up. With a tense, fast story and strong, likeable performances, the strengths of the film were somehow entirely reversed in the disastrous sequel.
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